Qt 4.7's "QtDeclarative" may help N900 run MeeGo and Symbian Qt apps with "little or no extra effort"

In a thread on "Cleaning [the] N900 FUD", Quim Gil - Nokia's community manager for Maemo/MeeGo - emphasised that the experimental Qt 4.7 release for Maemo 5 could really ease the transition to MeeGo: We have been discussed that the arrival of Qt 4.6 final & official means better compatibility and longer life for Maemo 5. In this context it's worth mentioning that the Qt team has started packaging Qt 4.7 (with QtDeclarative inside) for Maemo 5. Don't overlook this QtDeclarative since it has all the number for bringing plenty of apps for MeeGo and Symbian that might very well run on top of Maemo 5 with Qt 4.7 one with little or no extra developer effort. Of course, if Qt applications are relatively mobile between MeeGo, Symbian and Maemo 5, this reduces the incentive for Nokia to officially release an end-user supported version of a Maemo 5 successor for the N900. Indeed, it will probably reduce the community interest as well. However, it's worth noting that the Harmattan UI, and the official Nokia applications, will not be available through this mechanism; and that the Qt Mobility APIs have yet to deliver on this cross-platform development dream.