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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:35:33 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:04:51AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 18:59:46 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > > given that the problems specific to distros have been adequately
> > > > solved (even if you find that hacky - which it certainly is in
> > > > case of badly written build systems), i don't see why we should
> > > > bother changing anything at this point.
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > > In that case, nothing is going to change on our end either, I can
> > > live with that (though I don't like the situation, for the reasons
> > > explained above), but Thiago will not be happy.
> >
> > 
> >
> > I will be happy with the renaming provided that:
> kevin meant that you would be unhappy with deprecating qtchooser as far
> as distros are concerned, and staying with the status quo (i.e., distros
> provide renamed aliases).

I would be happy to deprecate its requirement from distros, if my requirements 
above are met.

I like it for my own uses because it allows me to type:

	qmake -qt5-release

instead of

	../../bin/qmake
or
	../../../qtbase/bin/qmake
or
	~/obj/qt/qt5-release/qtbase/bin

But I might replace it with a very simple shell script or function instead, if 
it's not required by distros.

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