[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 05:25:23 CET 2015


On Monday 19 January 2015 20:23:30 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I do agree is not a simple task.

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