Hi Tor! On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 08:13, Tor Arne Vestbø <[email protected]> wrote: > > Morning, > > IMHO, suffixing our binaries is a kludge. It “solves” the major version > transition, but not any of the other use cases such as minor version > upgrades, different builds of the same Qt version, etc.
It's only about solving the major version, ie, the end-users version provided by distributions. The cases you mention are mostly developer-oriented. > Qt Creator already provides a way to manage and switch Qt versions: > https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-project-qmake.html Not everyone uses Creator. > What we need is a command line tool for doing the same. That’s how other > project solve things too (nvm, rvm, pyenv, etc). And we already have a tool > for that, qtchooser. If maintenance of that is an issue, then let’s solve > that. > > Why is that not an acceptable solution for distros? Because it breaks things: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=qtchooser and form that list specially https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712264 which is a per-design bug, ie, it can't be solved. That doesn't means developers can still use it though. -- 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
