On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > On sexta-feira, 19 de outubro de 2012 13.24.37, Simon Hausmann wrote: >> Regardless of the solution we find for Qt distro packages, it seems >> sensible that the Qt users can continue to find a /usr/bin/qmake program >> that corresponds to the most recent release of Qt. This provides >> consistency with Qt on other platforms as well as the handling of other >> command line programs such as python, gcc, ruby, etc. within the distros. > > I'm not sure I agree with this part. For one thing, you can bet that "qmake" > will *not* be Qt 5's for the next year or two, as people are still developing > Qt 4 applications. > > And like I said in another email, Qt 5's qmake is in an entirely different > category from gcc, ruby, etc. > > But I'm glad you brought python up! > > Fedora$ ls -l /bin/python /bin/python? > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Aug 6 15:23 /bin/python -> python2 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Aug 6 15:23 /bin/python2 -> python2.7 > -rwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 12888 Jun 7 22:36 /bin/python3 > > openSUSE$ ls -l /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python? > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 8 03:03 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 8 03:03 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 19 10:38 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.2 > > Debian$ ls -l /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python? > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 14 11:03 /usr/bin/python -> python2.6 > > Ubuntu$ > $ ls -l /usr/bin/python{,?} > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 17 2012 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 17 2012 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7 > > As you can see, they are not symlinks to /etc/alternatives/. Those are non- > configurable symlinks. So even if Python 3 were installed on those Ubuntu and > Debian, it still wouldn't have overwritten. > > If you want to take python as precedence, then we conclude "qmake" is for Qt 4 > and we need to find a new name for Qt 5.
I have not personally been much fan of that schema... Thiago, I hope your next proposal will not be qmake5.0, qmake5.1 and the like based upon some "python precedence". :-) Laszlo _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
