Qt compiler tool names

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 04:55:03 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Aaron Faanes wrote:
>
>>> We used the -qt4 postfix (which is a common practice among most distros
>>> these days) to allow for a parallel-installable qt3.
>>>
>>
>> Ah, I figured it was something like that. I couldn't find it using the
>> following:
>>
>> $ yum provides '*/bin/*-qt3'
>> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto,
>> refresh-packagekit No Matches found
>> $
>>
>> So I guess the qt3 stuff lives in a repo I no longer have access to,
>> perhaps?
>
> That the qt4 variants use a postfix doesn't imply that qt3 does too (it
> currently does not, due to it's legacy heritage, for better or worse).
>

So is it perhaps time to rename the qt3 stuff to -qt3 and make room
for the qt4 stuff?

Orcan


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