[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 13:13, Kai Köhne <Kai.Koehne at qt.io> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> > Thiago Macieira
> > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:48 PM
> > To: development at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5
> >
> > On Wednesday, 9 December 2020 23:24:00 PST Kai Köhne wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > We should mention only one: linguist6.
>
> I disagree.
>

I agree with Thiago. Having both Qt 5 and Qt 6 versions installed at the
same time will be a common thing for most users, and we will receive lots
of "bugs" due to that. The documentation then need to call the right tool.
And yes, I have seen that before lots of times (remember -qt5 in qtchooser?)

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