[Development] repository for the toolwrapper

Saether Jan-Arve Jan-Arve.Saether at digia.com
Wed Nov 28 09:18:11 CET 2012


> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces+jan-arve.saether=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:development-bounces+jan-arve.saether=digia.com at qt-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Oswald Buddenhagen
> Sent: 27. november 2012 17:13
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] repository for the toolwrapper
> 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.

FYI, http://modules.sourceforge.net seems to be in the same alley, but I've never used it. (This was brought up on this mailing list over a month ago)

Jan Arve




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