[Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den fre 19 feb. 2021 01:26Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> skrev:

> On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:30:16 PST Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> > 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.
>
> We don't even need to cause breakage. Just install both names and update
> the
> docs to the new names.
>

Yea that would work, but what about Windows that doesn't really have
symlinks? Would you install copies of the executables under both names?

With everywhere I meant including the SDK from TQtC.

Elvis


> On a source build, make the public bindir == private bindir. For
> system-wide
> builds, the distributor chooses to separate.
>
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