[Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5

[Scott Aron Bloom]

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.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 13:03 PM
To: interest at 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

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