On 19/10/12 02:23, Olivier Goffart wrote: > On Thursday 18 October 2012 08:30:03 Thiago Macieira wrote: >> After all of my patches are integrated, here are the changes that will >> happen: >> >> - bin: >> The following tools have been renamed: >> qmake -> qmake5 >> moc -> moc5 >> uic -> uic5 >> rcc -> rcc5 >> qdbusxml2cpp -> qdbusxml2cpp5 >> qdbuscpp2xml -> qdbuscpp2xml5 >> lconvert -> lconvert5 >> lrelease -> lrelease5 >> lupdate -> lupdate5 >> xmlpatterns -> xmlpatterns5 >> xmlpatternsvalidator -> xmlpatternsvalidator5 > [...] > > Thiago, I think you are going to ruin Qt5 the same way one could ruin a > nuclear powerplant by installing an ugly pink bikesheet in front of it. > > I agree with Ossi on this matter. > > I will add that i don't like to rename qmake to qmake5 because: > > One runs firefox, not firefox15. > Then you will say firefox is different because you don't want different > version of firefox? But what about web designer who want to test their > website? You may say it is less common. I say most user don't need qmake which > is in a dev package on many distributions. Only developpers need, and they > probably only need one of them. > > Same for g++, they did not rename when binary compatibility was broken. > > Take the most recent example of python. They did not rename the executable. > Some distribution renamed the new one to python3, some other (archlinux) > renamed the old one python2. > > Let the distributions solve the distributor's problem.
+1 -- Lorn Potter Senior Software Engineer, QtSensors/QtSensorGestures/QtSystemInfo _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
