On this note.. I a large number of my customers (about 20%) of my users are STILL using CentOS 5 or RHEL 5..
In moving to Qt 5, they are now losing printing support :( They will have to print to a PDF and print external to the tool. In EDA, the industry Im in, our customers, quite often get stuck on a hardware platform for the life time of their project. And a project can be 5-6 YEARS.. So, if they are on CentOS 5 and it was 1 year old when the project started, they will be using it throughout the project for 6-7 years.. Heck, we JUST got to drop CentOS 4 support last year! You might be interested in looking at that the EDAC website has to say, it's the industry consortium, and lists a bunch of OS's to try and support Scott -----Original Message----- From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 13:03 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5 On Wednesday 18 March 2015 14:25:54 Harri Porten wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > I'm not sure I will apply a fix to the main codebase since this is a > > feature added for kernel 2.6.22, almost 8 years ago. > > Still very much in use by certain industries who standardized on RH 5 > for the time being. 8 years is not much time for the life time of > classic Qt user's products. Thanks Harri and Bill. I will reconsider then. I was thinking that 8 years is longer than Qt 4 had feature releases... Bill said: > My sight has over 500 Linux machines. Only a handful are running > RedHat 6, but we will finally be migrating over the next 6 months to a > year. And when will you be deploying Qt 5.5 to that site? -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
