[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

[Kai Köhne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Kevin Kofler via Development
> Sent: Monday, November 2, 2020 4:42 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5
> 
> Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> > But I don’t see the point of renaming user-facing tools like assistant,
> > qml, qtdiag and pixeltool.   So I hope at least those will be spared.
> 
> At least assistant is frequently invoked by software and hence should
> definitely be officially suffixed so that software stops accidentally invoking the
> wrong version of assistant.

FYI, we've been taking assistant out of Qt 6.0. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-86746 . It's not depending on any particular Qt version, so my suggestion is to resurrect it (if there's enough demand) outside of qt5.git.

Regards

Kai