[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

Tor Arne Vestbø Tor.arne.Vestbo at qt.io
Wed Nov 18 14:16:08 CET 2020



> On 18 Nov 2020, at 14:01, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 09:58, Tor Arne Vestbø <Tor.arne.Vestbo at qt.io> wrote:
> [snip]
>> Let’s clarify this, so we’re talking about the same thing:
>> 
>> 1. Application end-users
>> 2. Application developers using Qt
>> 3. Qt developers
> 
> Let me expand it:
> 
> 1. Application end-users
> 2.1. Application developers using Qt as provided by distro.
> 2.2. Application developers using more than one Qt major/minor version.
> 3. Qt developers.
> 
>> #3 develops Qt for use by #2 to produce applications for #1
>> 
>> When you are talking about end users, which one of these do you refer to?
> 
> 1 and 2.1.

The application end user (#1) shouldn’t need access to any of Qt’s binaries AFAIK. What’s there for us to fix for them? 

Cheers,
Tor Arne 



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