Hi Joerg! On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 05:49, Joerg Bornemann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/13/20 8:24 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > Oh. And I'm surprised by the Qt-people sudden love of QtChooser > There's no sudden love. Just surprise that all of a sudden, shortly > before the release, the established solution for co-installability must > be changed.
I have brought this issue at very least two years ago: https://development.qt-project.narkive.com/l84BEF6M/qt6-qt5-coinstallability-linux-distributions And I'm pretty sure I did revive the topic at least one or two more times, so no, there is nothing new here. > It is certainly possible to add a further configure option a la > -qt-executable-suffix -qt6 > to move the burden from the packagers to Qt's build system and ensure > consistent Qt installation layouts across distributions. > > However, simply changing the executable names won't cut it. > I expect breakages, esp. in the qmake support. Therefore, this won't > happen for 6.0.0. > > Please come up with a proposal that fits the packagers needs for the > different distros, and we'll see how we can incorporate that into the > build system. Provide user-facing applications with a suitable prefix. That's all that's needed. Tools that are only used at build time do not need the prefix. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
