On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > As I see it the current issue (using a kernel feature which is not > present on an 8 years old RH 5) can be ignored. Qt 5 will never compile > for them, as it seems, since even when that feature in question would be > removed again, they would get past that point in compilation, but would > still hit problems with outdated (system) libraries.
William's case is just one out of many though. There are others willing to upgrade packages on their RH 5 systems. I've just had one customer following Christoph Cullmann's (of Kate fame) recipe this week: http://kate-editor.org/2014/12/22/qt-5-4-on-red-hat-enterprise-5/ Many EDA companies are still stuck to RHEL 5 as their standard (minimum) Linux platform. See these 2014/2015(!) statements: http://www.synopsys.com/Support/LI/SupportPlatform/Pages/PlatformsRoadmap.aspx http://www.cadence.com/support/computing/Documents/Cadence_Platform_Support_Plan.pdf http://supportnet.mentorg.com/systemreqs/calibre.cfm?lang=en http://www.ansys.com/staticassets/ANSYS/staticassets/support/platform-support-ansys-15.0-detailed-summary.pdf for example. The Qt Company's sales people from the US will be able to confirm this I bet. Granted, support can be dropped soon but development is still active and upgrades for developers and users won't happen that quickly. At least a compilation from sources should be made possible imo. Harri. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
