Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-12-17 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2018 M12 16, Sun 14:34:44 CET Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:47:36 PST Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > I also don't mind having moc6 etc. directly in bin/, instead of being > > hidden in libexec. Well, I actually prefer if they are in bin/, because > > there they are easy

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-12-16 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:47:36 PST Alexander Neundorf wrote: > I also don't mind having moc6 etc. directly in bin/, instead of being hidden > in libexec. Well, I actually prefer if they are in bin/, because there they > are easy to find an run, and sometimes that's necessary during

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-12-16 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2018 M11 14, Wed 03:43:03 CET Kevin Kofler wrote: > Thiago Macieira wrote: > > But I've just remembered that Designer loads plugins and those are quite > > clearly tied to the Qt version. The file format is backwards compatible > > and has remained so for a few years. It is possible that the

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-11-19 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday, 19 November 2018 11:42:48 PST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > b) If at some point we can agree it has been decided, is there any way I > could start contributing code in order to achieve this? Maybe I should just > wait until the new build system is on stage? something

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-11-19 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El martes, 13 de noviembre de 2018 23:58:28 -03 Thiago Macieira escribió: > On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:43:03 PST Kevin Kofler wrote: [snip] > > I think it would be much safer to just version everything. > > > > Just remember Assistant in Qt 4, where early 4.x releases shipped an > >

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-11-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:43:03 PST Kevin Kofler wrote: > Thiago Macieira wrote: > > But I've just remembered that Designer loads plugins and those are quite > > clearly tied to the Qt version. The file format is backwards compatible > > and has remained so for a few years. It is possible

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-11-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Thiago Macieira wrote: > But I've just remembered that Designer loads plugins and those are quite > clearly tied to the Qt version. The file format is backwards compatible > and has remained so for a few years. It is possible that the plugins > generate the same XML regardless of version, but I

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-11-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:19:58 PST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Agreed, but this means that if an application is backwards compatible then > it must be kept like that for all the Qt 6 lifetime. Is that feasible? Yes. Assistant, Linguist, the D-Bus tools should be. But

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-11-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El martes, 13 de noviembre de 2018 19:56:29 -03 Thiago Macieira escribió: > On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 13:43:20 PST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > Meyer > wrote: > > a) Qt 5 and Qt 6 binaries should be coinstalable both in a developer > > (libraries + binaries + build tools) and in a user's

Re: [Development] Qt6/Qt5 coinstallability (Linux distributions)

2018-11-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 13:43:20 PST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > a) Qt 5 and Qt 6 binaries should be coinstalable both in a developer > (libraries + binaries + build tools) and in a user's (only required > libraries and binaries) perspective. For example: a user should not