Re: KDE4/Qt4 removal from openSUSE Factory

On 2019-03-29 06:57 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
> On 3/29/19 2:13 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
>> On 2019-03-29 11:39 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> I'd argue that KDE5/Qt5 is not compatible with KDE4/Qt4 if applications
>>> have to be rewritten.
>>>
>> If compatibility was such a burning issue, we'd have a version of Leap
>> 15.0 that can be run on an 8-bit CPU. </s>
>>
> That's silly.
> And saying it about a 16-bit machine is also silly.
>
> But there are many who would appreciate a 32-but version.
> I still have a number of 32-but machines ... sadly running earlier versions well
> past EoL
>
It's not silly, it's sarcastic, and fully intended as such. I've been
running at least one PC for over 30 years, and every time a new standard
is introduced (hardware or software), people are complaining if it's not
fully backward compatible -- by which standard, we should still be
driving on the left side of the road (no apologies to my Aussie and
British cousins lol).
I make no apologies if any of that offends anyone, because every time
something vastly different and significantly improved comes on the
scene, something from the past is bound to get broken. Demanding
perpetual backward compatibility means only that hardware becomes
cumbersome and difficult to maintain, and software becomes slow and
bloated, and that is a price I for one am unwilling to accept.
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