[Development] repository for the toolwrapper

Oswald Buddenhagen oswald.buddenhagen at digia.com
Tue Nov 27 17:13:09 CET 2012


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:03:35PM -0200, Thiago A. CorrĂȘa wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen at digia.com> wrote:
> >>
> > yeah, i think it's a good idea to put it into that repo.
> > alternative naming ideas:
> > qtwrapper (that's too undescriptive)
> > qtchooser (i kinda like that)
> > qtswitcher
> > qtdispatcher
> > qt-version-manager (j/k)
> >
> 
> Gentoo has a tool that serves the same purpose and it's called
> eselect, so qselect isn't a bad name IMHO.
>
fine with me. if the other thiago likes it...

> In Gentoo's case, it's used for gcc, postgres and many other packages
> that can have slots ( multiple version install ).
> It's a shame other distros don't have their own eselect, then it
> wouldn't be necessary for Qt to have it's own.
> 
ha. i said excatly that a month ago, without knowing anything about
gentoo's existing solution.



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