On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 13:43:20 PST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > a) Qt 5 and Qt 6 binaries should be coinstalable both in a developer > (libraries + binaries + build tools) and in a user's (only required > libraries and binaries) perspective. For example: a user should not need > qmake to be present.
This does not apply for "application" executables that retain backwards compatibility functionality. There's no need to version linguist, designer, assistant or qdbus, qdbusviewer, so long as those applications can still be used while developing Qt 5 applications. The other extreme are development tools that almost never need to be run directly by directly the user, at all. That's the case for rcc, uic, moc, lupdate, lrelease, qmlcachegen, etc. Those should not be in the $bindir in the first place: they should live in $libexecdir and ought to be found by way of the .cmake and .pc files, as in: pkg-config --variable=libexecdir Qt6Core That only leaves front-end tools that are intricately tied to the Qt version that need renaming. The only two I can think of that fits this description are the "qml" and "qmlscene" pair. If we're feeling nice, we can do it too for diagnostic tools, like qtdiag, qtpaths, qtplugininfo. And then there's qmake. I'd really love if it were a backwards-compatible tool that worked for both Qt 5 and 6. It's unlikely to happen, since choosing the Qt version has always been done by selecting the proper qmake. So I imagine it will be one of the renamed ones. $ ls -1 `qmake -qt5-installed -query QT_INSTALL_BINS` assistant canbusutil designer fixqt4headers.pl lconvert linguist lrelease lupdate moc pixeltool qdbus qdbuscpp2xml qdbusviewer qdbusxml2cpp qdistancefieldgenerator qdoc qgltf qhelpgenerator qlalr qmake qml qmlcachegen qmleasing qmlimportscanner qmljs qmllint qmlmin qmlplugindump qmlpreview qmlprofiler qmlscene qmltestrunner qscxmlc qtattributionsscanner qtcreator qtcreator.sh qtdiag qtpaths qtplugininfo qtwaylandscanner qvkgen rcc repc sdpscanner syncqt.pl uic xmlpatterns xmlpatternsvalidator -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development