[Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 18 March 2015 20:27:06 Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> 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.

Why is that? Was CUPS not added to RHEL5? I find that hard to believe, since I 
do remember printing in the Trolltech office in 2006 and we used CUPS. CUPS is 
probably even part of LSB.

Or is the problem the fact that we rely on CUPS PDF printing and RHEL5 only 
supports PS printing?

> 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..

Indeed, but remember we're talking about a distro now 7 years old. That's at 
least one full cycle of your project.

Please make sure people choose VERY current stuff when they begin anew. If you 
choose something 2 years old and intend to keep it for 6 more, you'll suffer a 
lot when that thing is nearing the 8th anniversary.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center