[Interest] Standardizing Qt Kit Names

Artem Sidyakin artem.sidyakin at qt.io
Wed Aug 29 19:31:06 CEST 2018


As a perfectionist with OCD myself :) I find this point to be more than minor as it has been bothering me for quite a some time now.

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Artem Sidyakin

> On 29 Aug 2018, at 09:27, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> It might be a minor point, but I think it would be good to have more uniform kit name structure.
> 
> I'd like it to be Qt / Version / Platform like
> Qt 5.10.1 for Desktop
> Qt 5.10.1 for iOS
> Qt 5.10.1 for iOS Simulator
> 
> Instead I currently see:
> Android  for armabi-v7a (GC... Qt5.10.1..)
> Desktop Qt 5.10.1 clang ...
> Qt 5.10.1 for iOS
> 
> Either iOS has to come first, or Android, Desktop, have to come last. I think for readability (and sorting) it should be 
> <Qt version> / <Platform> / <Sub platform>
> 
> Where subplatform is Simulator, or CPU architecture This way, all Qt platforms of the same version would be grouped together. Since I regard (and I think others) Qt version as the first logical grouping rather than platform (who wants to select Platform, then Qt Version?, maybe if enough people want it, make it dynamic?)
> 
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