On domingo, 18 de março de 2012 12.03.17, [email protected] wrote: > > I'm sorry, but we can't keep supporting very old systems. By the time of > > the release, OpenSUSE 11.1 will be 18 months old or older. > > Wow..... are you suggesting that we're only interested in ensuring Qt5 runs > on systems that 18 months old or newer? That's going to make a lot of > enemies.....
No, 18 months is a bit too short. But 2 or 2½ years seems better.
> >> I asked about xcb on the LSB mailing list and early responses suggest
> >> that
> >> although xcb has been mentioned there before, it doesn't sound like it's
> >> progressed much beyond that. Dropping support for xlib and relying on xcb
> >> would thus make Qt5 a non-starter for some people.
> >
> > No one is working on xlib and it's not a reference platform. XCB is and
> > it's been around for years.
>
> Not arguing with you on this one. But my question is how consistent is xcb
> support across the major linux distributions? If ISV's can't build a binary
> that they can reliably distribute, that's going to be a serious road block
> for them to move to Qt5.
Support is pretty much consistent. Every Linux distro uses X.org, which uses
XCB.
As for LSB, it's a matter of it being stuck in time in 2006/2007.
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