Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qt4-r2.eclass - new eclass for Qt-based apps

[Dominik Kapusta <ayoy@gentoo.org>]

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On Sunday 29 November 2009 15:54:30 Thomas Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:46:59PM +0200, Dominik Kapusta wrote:
> > Hello guys!
> >
> > We, the Qt team, would like to include a new eclass in the tree.
> >
> > The qt4-r2 eclass is meant to help with ebuilds for Qt-based
> > (qmake-based, to be precise) applications.
> 
> Haven't look at the content yet. But the name is going to make things
>  extremely confusing. I can see people using qt4-r2 just because it has -r2
>  (so it is newer than qt4), even if they should use qt4. If you really need
>  to introduce a new eclass, you should use a name that accurately reflects
>  what it does.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 

The name is actually the simplest possible, and yes, our goal is to switch to 
qt4-r2 in the end (which I mentioned at the end of my first mail). So in 
general, once qt4-r2 is in, no one should use qt4.eclass.

We had several name options, e.g. qt4-tng but qt4-r2 seemed the most 
straightforward. plus -r2 adds the Gentoo flavor, hence is better than e.g. 
qt4-v2 :)

That said, we want qt4-r2 to be a new eclass for Qt-based ebuilds. And we 
can't just make changes to qt4.eclass since there are too many ebuilds using 
it and we would surely break the tree.

Cheers,
Dominik

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