[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

Kai Köhne Kai.Koehne at qt.io
Thu Dec 10 08:24:00 CET 2020


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> [...]
> > We do that already, it's just not enough for user-facing applications. I'll be
> more verbose on the bug report if needed.
> 
> The problem of options 2 and 3 are that they do not talk about
> documentation. Documentation should call user-facing tools with the 6 prefix
> too. That also means that it will change in other operative systems, so
> symlinks might not be the real cross platform solution.

Consistency is important, but is it really so that people struggle with realizing that 'linguist' is 'linguist6' in their local Linux installation?

If this is really a problem we can consider just mentioning both names in the documentation.

Kai



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