[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 12:31, Kai Köhne <Kai.Koehne at qt.io> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> > Thiago Macieira
> >> On Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:46:32 PST Joerg Bornemann wrote:
> >> It is certainly possible to add a further configure option a la
> >>      -qt-executable-suffix -qt6
> >> to move the burden from the packagers to Qt's build system and ensure
> >> consistent Qt installation layouts across distributions.> That's a good solution, so long as the packages built from qt.io also use it.
> > Can we count on that?
>
> Why should the packages in the online installer change? They are hardly ever installed into some general directory.

Because it sets precedence. This way tools will expect the prefix on Linux.

> Also, this most likely will set us back in the release process. Doing large-scale renames at RC time is just asking for trouble. Let's consider this in time for Qt 7.

And then someone will push the topic again and Qt fails to "see  it"
again, thus delayed to Qt 8.

Come on Kai, please realize it is **not** a new issue. In fact I
pushed this exact thing **two** years ago and then insisted on it
exactly to avoid this resolution.

If you (Qt company) do not really like it, then go ahead and say"we
don't care about distributions". Or just bite the bullet and do the
right thing: get those binaries renamed (or a method to do it).



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