[Development] qtchooser (was: Re: Adding new third party component three.js to Qt?)

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Jan 20 04:07:29 CET 2015


On Monday 19 January 2015 15:18:41 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > Distributors are going a great job creating Qt packages. But not everyone
> > is using their distro's Qt. In fact, looking at our customers I'd say that
> > most of them have their own Qt install somewhere on their disk. Possible
> > several installations even. Renamed binaries won't cope with that variety.
> > Our product relies on a --with-qmake switch or PATH for selection. Version
> > detections follows wherever named. Renamed binaries won't help. Or even
> > make our life harder as it needs to be.
> 
> If we are going to focus *just* on customers, yes, you might be right.
> 
> But as far as I understand this is not just about customers, but also about 
> users. And believe me, we have plenty of those

I'm not sure I see the distinction between users and customers here.

When you say "users", are you thinking of a person who builds a Qt-using 
software from a 3rdparty?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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