On quarta-feira, 10 de outubro de 2012 18.03.31, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 08:30:31PM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote: > > why not solve the problem at the level where it's supposed to be > > fixed, upstream? > > i disagree with your premise. ;) > the whole proposal addresses only one specific issue: conflicts between > major qt versions. like it or not, this is an issue specific to linux > distributors. which translates to some 20 people in the world who even > need to think about properly solving it.
Indeed. But their output affects a lot of people, including the majority of future Qt contributors, which have traditionally come from the Linux background. We need to provide a correct experience for those. > what about different build configurations of the same version (i.e., > your x-compiling use case)? qmake5-win32-pc-i386? Good point. Following GCC's lead, we could provide an option to have the executables include the arch name. But that should not be the default in non- cross-compilation builds. > what about concurrent minor version of the same major version? qmake5.1? Not necessary. qmake retains the necessary backwards compatibility. The newer version replaces the previous with all functionality necessary. Co-installing multiple versions of the same major-version package requires renaming beyond what we (or GCC) support. That's really up to distributors. > by encoding the major version but nothing else in the basenames of the > artifacts, those who have more complex setups are forced to use double > namespacing. > > nope, sorry, the version-based namespacing simply does not belong into > upstream. it's a problem specific to FHS, and should be addressed by > those concerned with it. It belongs in Qt and people have already agreed to it. We need to fix it in Qt. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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