#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 michaelld@…): Let me be brief: I don't have time to keep up with the ongoing banter here. I'm sure there's lots of great discussion in them, but the best I can do is scan them. I -strongly- encourage replies to be reasonably brief and concise. A reasonable paragraph like mine below is about what I can digest (~250 words). qt4-mac is openmaintainer, so if someone else wants to mess with it please go ahead! If you do, please make BIG changes not very often; as Mojca says: it takes forever to build Qt4 on some systems. Yes, sometimes it takes a small, stupid thing like total breakage in a new OS to get my attention; I'm a very busy person! I'm going to commit -something- tomorrow/Monday that will install qt4 to allow a parallel build. What I commit will be just the minimum necessary, whatever that is. If we decide to rename "qt4-mac" to just "qt4", that's fine with me & can be done at the same time. If not, that's also fine. I fully agree (and have stated) that René has worked hard & some of his changes will get put in place, some day; maybe by me, maybe by someone else. Maybe we can get a GSoC'16 student to do it & the other accumulating Qt tickets. I think the scenario this coming week will be as Mojca describes: there are just too many ports to check, so let's do the change and then clean up as necessary afterward. My commit will rev-bump around 25 ports that I know work with any Qt4 install location. There are another about 50 ports that either fail (~4 of them) or I haven't been able to test (~46 of them). Let's hope many of the latter of these use the qt4 portgroup & "just work". Either way, the time has come and this is the way it's going to happen (otherwise it won't happen & I think we wall don't want that). -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44193#comment:66> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X