On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 10:24, Kai Köhne <kai.koe...@qt.io> wrote:
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> Im Auftrag von
> > Joerg Bornemann
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Februar 2021 13:36
> > An: Elvis Stansvik <elvst...@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Macieira, Thiago <thiago.macie...@intel.com>; Qt development mailing
> > list <development@qt-project.org>
> > Betreff: Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5
> >
> > On 2/24/21 8:54 AM, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> >
> > > I guess it rules out installing to e.g. a FAT-formatted USB-stick, but
> > > I don't know if that's a thing. Could be considered an edge case and
> > > documented not to work.
> >
> > With https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/336652 a copy is made
> > if a hard-link cannot be created.
>
> Right, but that is at configure time, this doesn’t help with the online 
> installer.
>
> If we go down this route, we should arguably check in the online installer 
> whether the target folder is on an NTFS partition, and back out if not. One 
> more complication ... :/

Then just rename the binaries, update docs and everything goes smooth ;-)


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