On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 09:34, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > > Then there's the question of which tools we recommend be in $PATH with a > > suffix (list (b)). Please expand on this list if necessary, with a reason. > > Here's the minimum list: > > > > qmake6 entry point for building qmake-based applications, situation > > similar to /usr/bin/python (see [1]) > > > > > > I am not yet 100% convinced it is. This is a build tool after all, and even > > changes with minor versions of Qt. I know Linux distributions do only ship > > one minor version, but many of our users have to manage multiple minor > > versions of Qt as well. And renaming qmake with every minor version is a > > no-go. > > Well, that's the exact opposite reply I've got (from Ossi?) on Qt 5.0 > times. qmake needed to be on path in order to be able to query it for > some paths. But if that's no longer the case then yes, it can stay > away.
...but using the same rationale that would also mean that tools like cmake shouldn't be on path, which is not true. And yes, we could simply symlink qmake6 but I think that, for this very specific tool, the name should be qmake6 in docs too, at least on Linux. -- 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
