Hi! On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 13:17, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday, 2 November 2020 06:21:49 PST Shawn Rutledge wrote: > > Sorry for snipping so much, but it seems like all your arguments are about > > tools that are used to build software (qmake, moc etc.). And you have a > > point there. > > > But I don’t see the point of renaming user-facing tools like assistant, qml, > > qtdiag and pixeltool. So I hope at least those will be spared. > > I made a list of which tools are user-facing and which ones are development. > Of those in your list, I only agree with for assistant. And I add qdbus and > qdbusviewer. A requirement for "user-facing" implies that the tool performs > the same task without loss of functionality if it was upgraded.
I remember Kevin saying something about tools that use plugins too, IIRC designer, but there might be other tools to consider in this respect. [snip] > > When it comes to the actual suffix to add, why use -qt6 instead of just 6? > > KDE Frameworks 5 tools added just a "5" so it's fine: In fact yes, distros added -qt6 but -6 or just 6 could work too. I think users might get it easier to understand with -qt6, but I lack any serious data for that, just my ideas of maintaining Qt within Debian. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
