[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Oct 28 09:20:10 CET 2020


On Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2020 09:15:33 CET Lars Knoll wrote:
> > On 28 Oct 2020, at 08:37, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2020 17:34:44 CET Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >> Have we fixed it?
> >> 
> >> I do not plan on updating qtchooser for Qt 6. Qt 6 should not install any
> >> binary with the same name as Qt 5 did.
> > 
> > Do we need to change the default name of moc and uic then?
> 
> The solution we have with qtchooser works also for Qt 6 for those
> applications. Is there a reason to change this?
> 
Just seems better if the development packages could be installed in parallel 
by linux distros, without them having to do the renaming themselves.

Though then we should also consider where we install headers. I guess we can 
leave up it to distros to fix themselves once more.

'Allan




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