Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> I do think qtchooser could be a generalized portable utility, not just for
> Qt. But switching versions by updating symlinks (as in the
> /etc/alternatives system) is relatively clumsy compared to the way
> qtchooser lets you switch to different versions in each shell instance if
> you like.
/etc/alternatives is not the proper solution either. It has mostly the same
design flaws as qtchooser, with the additional issue that the choice is a
global systemwide choice rather than a runtime one, which breaks multi-user
setups and concurrency (can't build apps against different Qt versions
concurrently).
The correct solution is to use unique (i.e., in practice, suffixed) binary
names.
Kevin Kofler
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