[Development] Summary of renaming changes

[Matt Williams]

On 19 October 2012 12:29, Oswald Buddenhagen
<oswald.buddenhagen at digia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:00:04AM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
>> On 2012-10-19, Alberto Mardegan <mardy at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> > 3) Provide a script to switch, per user and maybe even per $PWD, what
>> > version of Qt /usr/bin/qmake should generate the makefiles for.
>>
>> I have, as a distributor, frequently gotten 'hate' in #qt for providing
>> switchable qmakes.
>>
> using (debian style) altenatives for that is pretty stupid.
>
> using a "menu" function which manipulates PATH in the current shell is
> exactly the right thing to do. that's the ominious "qset" some trolls
> have been talking about.

There is also 'modules' (http://modules.sourceforge.net/) which is
used at my University to achieve a similar thing.

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Matt Williams
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