[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezmeyer at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 14:21:14 CET 2020


On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 10:16, Tor Arne Vestbø <Tor.arne.Vestbo at qt.io> wrote:
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> > On 18 Nov 2020, at 14:01, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 09:58, Tor Arne Vestbø <Tor.arne.Vestbo at qt.io> wrote:
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> >> Let’s clarify this, so we’re talking about the same thing:
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> >> 1. Application end-users
> >> 2. Application developers using Qt
> >> 3. Qt developers
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> > Let me expand it:
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> > 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.
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> >> #3 develops Qt for use by #2 to produce applications for #1
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> >> When you are talking about end users, which one of these do you refer to?
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> > 1 and 2.1.
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> 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?

qdbus can be called by an app ran by an end-user. Yes, it's a
backwards-compatible tool so nothing to worry with that specific tool
(in fact this thread helped to clear down the tools that need to be
backwards compatible).

So (#1) is mostly (fully?) cleared, then we still have (#2.1).


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