Do not use VS2005 SP1 with Qt4

**bkramer** · 4th March 2007, 19:05

This is Brian Kramer. At the time when I unzipped the 40 megabyte Qt download, I was using an RC version of Vista. Vista RTM takes about 20-25 minutes to unzip Qt 4.2.2. Still a long time, but significantly faster.

btw, I'm not a Microsoft employee.

**Brandybuck** · 5th March 2007, 03:39

Originally Posted by bkramer

This is Brian Kramer. At the time when I unzipped the 40 megabyte Qt download, I was using an RC version of Vista. Vista RTM takes about 20-25 minutes to unzip Qt 4.2.2. Still a long time, but significantly faster.

The incredible slowness of unzipping on Windows XP irks me to no end, but taking 20-25 minutes to unzip Qt sources is ridiculous. I can unzip the sources on my 2Ghz FreeBSD system in thirty seconds. That's 50 times faster than Vista.

**luf** · 5th March 2007, 07:49

Originally Posted by bkramer

This is Brian Kramer. At the time when I unzipped the 40 megabyte Qt download, I was using an RC version of Vista. Vista RTM takes about 20-25 minutes to unzip Qt 4.2.2. Still a long time, but significantly faster.

btw, I'm not a Microsoft employee.

use WinRAR or winzip... the built-in zip features of windows is really slow.
Winrar uses only about 4-5 mins here.

**wysota** · 5th March 2007, 11:12

Which is still quite long compared to 30 sec

**pdolbey** · 15th March 2007, 22:10

For anyone interested you can find the MS patch on the http://hotfix.xable.net forum, click the Download button and select a language and so on... - its not too hard to find.

Pete