Maxpower? What?
I thought Friction did the QT update? Hmmmmm.
So who's gonna do the .7 update along with the native colored coins code upgrade? Cause I thought our Friction was doing all this coding. I've been praising that man as a Brilliant Genius so I'm a bit confused now.
Bitcoin comes in two parts, bitcoind (which includes the core protocol) and the QT stuff (which includes the UI). I worked on the bitcoind, porting it to iXcoin. I also modfied the QT code so it would be specific to IXcoin.
Maxpower, is an expert at putting together the MacOS X binaries, so I had him build the source to create these binaries. I paid him IXC to perform the work.
This stuff is complicated and time consuming. Like I said earlier, I delegate some of the work because I don't have all the time in the world to do everything. The Windows QT is a bit delayed because the person who does that is delayed.
In short, the QT compilation is a pain to do, and prefer someone else to do it. Compiling and testing the C++ core libraries is entirely different and much more fun to do.