[Marble-devel] Review Request 122731: Support qt4/qt5 parallel-instalable libmarblewidget

[Rex Dieter]

Dennis Nienhüser wrote:

>> On Feb. 28, 2015, 4:06 p.m., Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
>> > Makes sense generally. I do not have a system to test with at the
>> > moment, but the problems with plugin loading sound like a must-fix
>> > before shipping. Got some details on it? Do some plugins load, or none?
>> > Is it related to the qt version?
>> 
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>     Looks like I'm getting the same crashes without this patch, so
>>     probably unrelated.  I'll file a bug (separately).
>> 
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>     bug filed, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344692
> 
> With this patch we get
> - Qt4: libmarblewidget
> - Qt5: libmarblewidget-qt5
>  
> Other options would be
> - Qt4: libmarblewidget-qt4
> - Qt5: libmarblewidget
> 
> and also
> - Qt4: libmarblewidget-qt4
> - Qt5: libmarblewidget-qt5

I'd suggest not changing api for older apps (qt4), and only require a change 
for qt5 (and newer).  It will be easier to get newer application developers 
to adapt to a change than to fix legacy applications.

-- Rex