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

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Jan 20 05:23:30 CET 2015


On Tuesday 20 January 2015 00:47:50 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> I think there is a point which we might be missing in this long thread. For 
> Qt5 we are not asking for a simple rename because that *would* break stuff
> for other people, and that's not fair. What we ask is *adding* an
> executable with a suffixed -qt5, be it as a symlink where the OS allows it
> or as copy of the executable if there is no other way out.

You're forgetting the documentation. It's not just adding the symlink or new 
binary. We have to tell people that this is what they should use.

If we're going to do this, we should do it for ALL operating systems and all 
builds, plus adapt Qt Creator.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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