On Sunday, 28 March 2021 17:35:03 PDT Scott Bloom wrote: > Here is why upgrading to Qt would be important. The monitor on a perfectly > working machine, dies. > > They put in a new monitor for the engineer. IT dept has decided the 4k > monitor for 300 bucks is the standard. > > Now the application which LOOKED and worked great, now looks like crap, > because the version of Qt its built on, doesn’t have fully working high DPI > support. > > Some of their tools work great, others look like total crap. They notify > vendors, we need high DPI support. > > Multiple vendors stuck on Qt 5.12.9 are fubar, customer sends letter out, > fix it, and drop Qt if necessary. (Yes we have gotten that in writing) if > Qt GUI cant support high DPI monitors. > > The response of, its fully supported on CentOS 7 with zero issues. Worked > until they had other tools that were working fine (not Qt based)
Now suppose the issue wasn't HiDPI but something else that required a different component to be updated (like if you needed to update the Xorg server). And suppose the update didn't compile on CentOS 6 either. Unlike the case of Qt, you don't have The Qt Company to blame. What is the outcome? -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
