Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Somewhat amusingly, the LSB list this week is discussing removing Qt3 from
> the next version of the LSB, because apps will have had 6 years to migrate
> to Qt4, and "6 years are enough for all Qt3 apps to disappear. 6 years 
> are ages in IT."    (I'd love these guys to meet the customers still 
> running OpenLook apps on current Solaris that they compiled on Solaris 2.4 in 
> 1995.)
> 
> (LSB thread starts at:
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2007-November/004387.html
>  
> )

QT4 out for 6 years ??? :-)

That would make QT4 born in 2001. IIRC those were the times of QT 3.0.x.

I'd *love* to watch the "We Removed QT3 So Deal With It" Show. :-) Nothing 
makes 
a customer happier than yanking a bunch of libraries they depend on, preferably 
with no warning, and in a patch intuitively labeled "QT3 Upgrades".

--Stefan

-- 
Stefan Teleman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM


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