On Tuesday, 13. March 2007, David Johnson wrote:
> The current Qt4 ports install binaries with nonstandard names, such
> as "qmake-qt4", "uic4", etc. Are there any plans to undo this in the
> future?

No.

> (Or at least make them consistant?). While I'm sure it's convenient
> for some port maintainers, it's somewhat annoying from a developer's
> perspective.

While it may be inconvenient at first, I actually think it's a rather good 
thing: The names for qmake, moc and uic are "non-standard" not only in FreeBSD 
but a lot of linux distributions because Trolltech doesn't properly support qt3 
and qt4 living in the same installation prefix. Developers (especially those of 
buildsystems) and their software will need to deal with this until TT will fix 
it (the next possible opportunity being qt5, which will not be here very soon).

For what it's worth: 'qmake-qt4' was chosen as a a name because cmake's Qt4 
checks look for that binary name (because Debian started with the binary 
renaming business :) and subsequently retrieve all the other relevant binary 
names (such as uic4 and moc4) from it, which I think is reasonably convenient 
(if you're using cmake, but cmake is the future, right?).


Cheers,
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