[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 20:29, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
<perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 12:55, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, 9 November 2020 09:57:13 PST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> > wrote:
> > > Seriously, we have discussed this before, and we kind of agreed that
> > > user-facing applications should either be really backwards compatible
> > > or should have the tool suffixed with the qt version. Whatever other
> > > option is just pain for maintainers, be it trough qtchooser or by
> > > letting us renaming tools ourselves.
> >
> > Lisandro, Kevin, other packagers in the list:
> >
> > May I suggest you get together and make a proposal? If you can get a patch
> > into Gerrit, great. If not, then post the cmake command-line that Linux
> > distributions will use. We need the distributions to be consistent with each
> > other.
> >
> > Post to this list what the Qt 6 Linux distributions packages will install and
> > what the layout will be. Whether the default builds do the same or not is
> > irrelevant. It's your choice and can go against the default build.
> >
> > This is important for KDE Frameworks 6 and other software that mostly builds
> > from distro packages will likely adopt for its reference documentation.
>
> I like the idea. I have not touched Qt 6 yet (I'm very sadly not going
> to be able to maintain it) but I think this is actually a nice thing
> to do. I'll reach my co-maintainers and ask there. Kevin: can you do
> the same?

I've discussed this with Dmitry Shachnev and the simplest way to
"solve" this would be to ship binaries in /usr/lib/qt6/bin/foo and
have /usr/bin/foo-qt6 symlinks to those.

Projects using CMake to build will have no issues at all. If KDE
people need to call a user-facing application they might get the path
from CMake too.

Note that I used the -qt6 suffix here because I think that's what most
distros have been doing, but we have no opposition to any other suffix
scheme if necessary.


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