[PyQt] QScintilla2 for Qt4/Qt45 Co-installability

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sun Mar 9 17:26:13 GMT 2014


On 09-03-2014 4:41 pm, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Sigh. Phone auto correct. ..
>
>  Debian/Ubuntu
>
>  Scott K
>
> On March 9, 2014 9:48:30 AM EDT, Scott Kitterman
> <debian at kitterman.com> wrote:
>
>> Ive been investigating extending the Deviant/Unintuitive packages
>> for QScintilla2 to also build for Qt5.
>>
>> Both the build for Qt4 and Qt5 produce identically named
>> libqscintilla2 so files. I can easily mark the packages as
>> conflicting so they cant be installed at the same time, but that
>> seems less than ideal.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions about how to proceed on making the
>> libraries co-installable?

The current snapshot installs a qscintilla2.prf file so that is now the 
recommended way of adding QScintilla to a .pro file. That then makes it 
more acceptable to call the library different names when compiled 
against different versions of Qt.

Phil


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