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

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Jan 20 03:44:14 CET 2015


On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:06:45 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> If I'm wrong then simply unmasking qdbus with qtchooser should be enough. 
> /usr/bin/qdbus should be provided by the default version (qt4's one in our 
> case) and we might even let qt5-qdbus depend upon it's qt4 version, so 
> packages depending on it would get both for the time being.
> 
> If I'm *not* wrong then I have no other choice but to tell qt5-apps' 
> maintainers to patch their software to call qdbus with the -qt5 parameter.
> And  we can't even upstream those patches because on platforms other than
> Linux there is no qtchooser available, and most of the tools will fail
> saying a wrong parameter has been issued. So we have no other option than
> to keep a delta from upstream.

qdbus should be the same in all versions. I don't plan on making breaking 
changes in the future -- I can't see what I could do to create such 
problems...
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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