[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 114, Issue 38

[Thiago Macieira]

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?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering