On Monday 23 March 2015 07:07:48 Thiago Macieira wrote: > > 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.
Hi Thiago, some industries are just no so fast paced. I am also still supporting one major application running at SuSE 9 and Qt 3.3.3 in medical rescue helicopters. At the time of development Qt4 was just out and to new to use in such a critical application. With a new hardware version it was rewritten using Qt4 in 2010 but the old hardware is just to reliable to be replaced after 10 years. Last week I was even asked for support by a customer (military) because an application (16bit DOS/WIN) written 17 years ago because it does not run on current Windows. So I will have to convert something written using ZINC (anybody knew/remember?) and convert it to current Qt for the next 15 years to run. -- Best Regards Reinhardt Behm _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
