Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #48088, comment 10


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Jun 19, 2015, 8:13:15 AM (9 years ago)
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RJVB (René Bertin)
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  • Ticket #48088, comment 10

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    66I'm referring to what's done by Linux distributions that provide and use 3rd party software like Qt in a way that's very comparable to what MacPorts aims to do. That goal is not simply to provide Qt so that one can build standalone applications that can be distributed as a self-contained ensemble (*that* is more or less Qt's principal goal). It's to provide a Qt installation that is installed such that it facilitates its shared use, in an environment based on FreeDesktop.org (and XDG) conventions. A Linux user might be running Qt-based applications while using a Gnome desktop or Gnome applications on a KDE desktop. This is not entirely relevant on OS X as no one is likely to run a "pure" KDE desktop (a Gnome desktop in addition to "Aqua" is perfectly possible, though). Still, it should be possible to share certain resources between Qt, KDE/KF5, GTk, Gnome, XFCE etc. applications if they're installed through MacPorts. I won't say that is impossible to do with Qt completely installed somewhere in its own corner (because I don't have proof for that), but I do suspect that it could be a lot harder. Nicos and/or Michael may know more about this.
    77To look on it another way: there's nothing stopping Linux distro maintainers from sticking Qt in its own tree; for them it makes maintaining the Qt package itself a lot easier. The fact that they've gone that extra length to layout the installation the way it is done in, say, Ubuntu, cannot but mean that there are good reasons to do it in such a way, IMHO.
    8 (And to give credit where credit is due: Michael, I think your version as used in qt4-mac is rather cleaner than the one in Ubuntu, shown above.)
     8([EDIT for lack of morning coffee] And to give myself and Michael some credit: I think the layout I propose (derived from the one used in qt4-mac) is rather cleaner than the one in Ubuntu, shown above.)