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

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Jan 20 20:46:39 CET 2015


On Tuesday 20 January 2015 16:01:59 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 15:39:28 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > but this is already the case, and has been since qt2. so that ship has
> > sailed. in fact, when rex was pushing for the qmake-qt5 scheme, the
> > debian (?) guys made clear that they'll keep their qmake5 (?) scheme
> > anyway - they must, for compat reasons.
> 
> No, we didn't. And I actually don't remember anyone saying so.
> 
> What we *might* have said is keeping qmake tied to qt4, previous to
> qtchooser.

I think we had a proposal to name qmake "qmake5" from upstream -- after my 
initial idea of calling it "qmake3" was shot down[1]. But since we also 
discarded the idea of renaming, there was no qmake5.

[1] $ qmake -v
QMake version 3.0
Using Qt version 5.4.1 in /home/thiago/obj/qt/qt5/qtbase/lib

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