#44193: qt: allow side by side installation of qt4-mac and qt5-mac -------------------------------+------------------------ Reporter: mojca@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: qt4-mac, qt5-mac | -------------------------------+------------------------ Comment (by pixilla@…): Replying to [comment:63 rjvbertin@…]:

Replying to [comment:62 mojca@…]:

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Replying to [comment:60 rjvbertin@…]:

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First off, existing users can be warned not to upgrade to 10.11, but I guess you also have newcomers in mind (who'd have to be told to wait until compatibility issues are fixed). The vast majority of the ones I've installed simply rebuild because 1) they use the Qt4 portgroup and 2) my layout changes are so minimal.

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Btw: if we are moving the complete structure anyway, what about renaming the new port simply to `qt4`? Now that x11 is hardly support (and probably not needed), there is no way to keep calling that port `"mac"`. That way we could keep the old `qt4-mac` in place for a while (and ports that won't be upgraded yet might conditionally keep working), while urging everyone to switch to the new `qt4` asap and update the ports to use qt4 instead of qt4-mac?

I think it would be less confusing for the "standard" qt{4,5} ports to be named qt4 and at5 and let "specialty" ports add a suffix.

Which still boils down to the same thing, at least if I understand correctly that those ports do not yet have (published) Qt5 variants/subports.

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May I perhaps suggest you to put your files to a place like GitHub or any other public service, so that it becomes slightly easier to track your changes for those who might be interested? Uploading zips to trac starts getting cumbersome at some point, particularly with the amount of changes that you need to make.

Has been the case for months: https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/tree/master/aqua ...

I hope the substantial time and effort René has put into making QT and KDE better on the Mac can finally make it's way into MacPorts in whole, pieces or spirit. A quick look at the relevant KDE mail lists and issue trackers will show an impressive tail of contributions. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44193#comment:64> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X