[Development] Alternative Proposal (was: Re: Summary of renaming changes)

[Laszlo Papp]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On sexta-feira, 19 de outubro de 2012 13.24.37, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>> Regardless of the solution we find for Qt distro packages, it seems
>> sensible  that the Qt users can continue to find a /usr/bin/qmake program
>> that corresponds to the most recent release of Qt. This provides
>> consistency with Qt on other platforms as well as the handling of other
>> command line programs such as python, gcc, ruby, etc. within the distros.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with this part. For one thing, you can bet that "qmake"
> will *not* be Qt 5's for the next year or two, as people are still developing
> Qt 4 applications.
>
> And like I said in another email, Qt 5's qmake is in an entirely different
> category from gcc, ruby, etc.
>
> But I'm glad you brought python up!
>
> Fedora$ ls -l /bin/python /bin/python?
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     7 Aug  6 15:23 /bin/python -> python2
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     9 Aug  6 15:23 /bin/python2 -> python2.7
> -rwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 12888 Jun  7 22:36 /bin/python3
>
> openSUSE$ ls -l /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python?
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul  8 03:03 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul  8 03:03 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 19 10:38 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.2
>
> Debian$ ls -l /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python?
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 14 11:03 /usr/bin/python -> python2.6
>
> Ubuntu$
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/python{,?}
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 17  2012 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 17  2012 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7
>
> As you can see, they are not symlinks to /etc/alternatives/. Those are non-
> configurable symlinks. So even if Python 3 were installed on those Ubuntu and
> Debian, it still wouldn't have overwritten.
>
> If you want to take python as precedence, then we conclude "qmake" is for Qt 4
> and we need to find a new name for Qt 5.

I have not personally been much fan of that schema... Thiago, I hope
your next proposal will not be qmake5.0, qmake5.1 and the like based
upon some "python precedence". :-)

Laszlo