On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 01:44:36PM +0200, ext Thiago Macieira wrote: > On terça-feira, 22 de maio de 2012 11.16.31, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:32:31AM -0700, ext Girish Ramakrishnan wrote: > > > It would be nice if we can make things simpler for all distros by > > > renaming our tools. > > > > > > What do we gain from keeping the same name for all our tools across > > > major versions? > > > > we don't complicate our own release process with a downstream issue. > > we don't complicate things for non-distro users. > > Aren't the two statements contradictory? > > if we don't complicate things for non-distro users, then it stands to reason > that we want to facilitate for distro users. Then we do care about a > downstream issue. > huuuh? changing the names of the executables complicates life for everyone, including distro [package] users. for the latter it just happens to be the lesser evil.
> > also, we are not going to call our tools moc-qt5, etc., as that's just > > ugly. as many distros do just that, so we would break their "standard" > > anyway. > > I agree it's ugly, but it is what Linux users are likely to find. Should we > not > standardise on that? > there is a tad more out there than linux ... _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
