Re: [Development] Nominating Aleix Pol Gonzalez for approver status

2021-02-17 Thread Samuel Gaist via Development
> > On 18 Feb 2021, at 07:30, Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt > wrote: > > Hi all! > > I would like to nominate Aleix Pol Gonzalez as an approver for the Qt Project. > > Aleix has been a contributor to KDE and Qt for many years, touching on many > different areas of Qt, and has lately been acti

[Development] Nominating Aleix Pol Gonzalez for approver status

2021-02-17 Thread Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt
Hi all! I would like to nominate Aleix Pol Gonzalez as an approver for the Qt Project. Aleix has been a contributor to KDE and Qt for many years, touching on many different areas of Qt, and has lately been actively involved in Qt Wayland to help improve its position on the Linux desktop: h

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 08:13:41 PST Kai Köhne wrote: > Anyhow, now that we've been both venting our frustration a bit: As Joerg > already pointed out, I'm completely fine with the patch he has prepared, > and certainly do hope that distributions make use of it. I'm just > disagreeing with t

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:32:13 PST Joerg Bornemann wrote: > Yes, and that's all good, and with > https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/334054 we will have an > offical recommendation. > I will also add a documentation page in the vicinity of > https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/linux-buildin

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 04:32:43 PST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > Obviously not with enough fervor to convince people and in the case of > > Qt6 mch too late in the release process. > > In fact the most difficult people to convince are within tqtc. And no, we > have b

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Ville Voutilainen
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 17:08, André Pönitz wrote: > I agree that update-alternatives is Just Wrong for something that > should effectively be the user's decision (and not even a decision > for all of the user's projects but something that needs to be done > case-by-case). > > On the other hand I d

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Sorry for the mis-threading (my replies to this list haven't been working right recently), but... As for thiago's proposal: > 1) the binaries from Qt company must also perform this step > 2) the documentation has to be updated to include the "6" at the end too +1 (+million), this proposal speaks

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 13:13, Kai Köhne wrote: [snip] > > In fact the most difficult people to convince are within tqtc. And no, we > > have been asking for this change, specifically for qt6, > > since at very least 2019. And they where no small threads. > > That might have less to do with t

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Kai Köhne
> Von: Development Im Auftrag von Lisandro > Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2021 13:33 > An: development@qt-project.org > Betreff: Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5 > > Hi! > El mié., 17 feb. 2021 05:33, Joerg Bornemann

[Development] API Change Review 6.0 -> 6.1

2021-02-17 Thread David Skoland
Hi, The Gerrit changes for the API Change review from 6.0 to 6.1 have been submitted, in accordance with QUIP-10 (http://quips-qt-io.herokuapp.com/quip-0010-API-review.html) The changes can be listed with this link: https://codereview.qt-project.org/q/topic:%22api-change-review%22+(status:open

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! El mié., 17 feb. 2021 05:33, Joerg Bornemann escribió: > > > On 2/17/21 12:47 AM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > > Kai: we the maintainers have been asking for the right solution since > the Qt3 to Qt4 switch. > > Obviously not with enough fervor to convince people and in th

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2021-02-17 Thread Joerg Bornemann
On 2/16/21 5:36 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: We're simply asking that we make official what is already done everywhere. Yes, and that's all good, and with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/334054 we will have an offical recommendation. I will also add a documentation page in the