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Will the next version of Delphi be released with cross platform support and Qt based components? If so, do we have to distribute with Qt? (I don’t know anything about Qt)
How can Qt help the Delphi world, and why did many programmers using C++ start using Qt with, and what will happen to VCL?
Probably. A lot depends on how it will be implemented, and how Qt will be linked to executables. There are also interesting implications depending on what kind of Qt license is used. The LGPL is not the MPL or the BSD…
Qt is a C++ library, and C++ developers use it directly. It makes sense to use it from C++ to write portable applications. It makes a lot less sense to create a wrapper over a wrapper, what the Qt/VCL would be. They will take that road because it’s faster to deliver a cross-platform framework that way, but they didn’t learn anything from the mistakes they made (CLX, VLC.NET) and will repeat it again. They will have to map a library written with its onw design to the Delphi library design, and it means a lot of compromises without any control over the underlying framework. IMHO, it will be a failure like the CLX and the VCL.NET.