[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

[Elvis Stansvik]

I think just suffix all the binaries (all of them) everywhere, and update
the docs everywhere. See how simple it would be. Yes it will cause some
breakage, but definitely worth it in my opinion.

Elvis

Den tors 18 feb. 2021 17:25Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
skrev:

> On Thursday, 18 February 2021 01:56:55 PST Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> > > Make that "mac building" too, because it shall apply to Homebrew.
> >
> >
> > Sorry, no. If Homebrew renames binaries, that’s a Homebrew documentation
> > installation documentation issue. How Qt is built from source on macOS
> has
> > no relation to that.
>
> The point is that it applies to more than one platform, including mac.
> Therefore, it should be more visible than "linux-building".
>
> Also, Qt when built from sources should match the majority of build styles
> too.  Or put another way: what do we lose by having the common name that
> everyone shares in the default?
>
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering
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