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

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezmeyer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 05:11:55 CET 2015


On Monday 19 January 2015 19:30:46 Thiago Macieira wrote:
[snip]
> > So, as Sune Vuorela also explained, having multiple major versions of Qt
> > in
> > parallel is always going to be a fact of life.
> 
> Indeed, but the Qt devs' original proposal was to simply put it outside
> /usr/bin, possibly even outside of $PATH. If distros had accepted to install
> Qt in (say) /opt/qt5, there would have been no qtchooser, no renaming and
> no need for change anywhere in our buildsystem. But distros refused to do
> what we asked...

For the sake of completeness, we are not allowed to do so in the same strength 
that the Qt project doesn't allows binary incompatibility between minor 
versions, and for which us downstreamers are very grateful :)


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