Hi! On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 12:31, Kai Köhne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Development <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > > Thiago Macieira > >> On Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:46:32 PST Joerg Bornemann wrote: > >> 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.> That's a good > >> solution, so long as the packages built from qt.io also use it. > > Can we count on that? > > Why should the packages in the online installer change? They are hardly ever > installed into some general directory.
Because it sets precedence. This way tools will expect the prefix on Linux. > Also, this most likely will set us back in the release process. Doing > large-scale renames at RC time is just asking for trouble. Let's consider > this in time for Qt 7. And then someone will push the topic again and Qt fails to "see it" again, thus delayed to Qt 8. Come on Kai, please realize it is **not** a new issue. In fact I pushed this exact thing **two** years ago and then insisted on it exactly to avoid this resolution. If you (Qt company) do not really like it, then go ahead and say"we don't care about distributions". Or just bite the bullet and do the right thing: get those binaries renamed (or a method to do it). -- 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
