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

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Monday 19 January 2015 18:44:14 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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...

I just wrote an example in another mail, supposing a feature is added.

We might argue that the same could be said for assistant, but at least that 
one is fairly obvious to spot ;)

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