[Development] Summary of renaming changes

Giuseppe D'Angelo dangelog at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 18:47:16 CEST 2012


On 18 October 2012 16:30, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>
> The following tools require more information:
>         qdoc: not renamed because the Qt 4 version was called "qdoc3"
>         qhelpgenerator, qcollectiongenerator, qhelpconverter: they apparently
>         keep backwards compatibility, so they should replace the Qt 4 versions
>         qglinfo: new tool from qt3d

I would add "5" everywhere for consistency...

> The following are user applications and they have not and will not be renamed:
>         qdbus
>         qdbusviewer
>         assistant
>         designer
>         linguist
>         creator
>         pixeltool

I would remove creator from this list as it's a different ""product""
and comes with its own versioning and release cycle -- are all of
those 100% compatible with Qt 4? (First thing that comes to mind is
that designer loads plugins...). Otherwise, I would rename them as
well to enable coinstallation.

Cheers,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo



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