Macports and Qt development

[Francisco García]

Am 05.03.2012 um 01:10 schrieb James Linder:

> 
> Your mail implies you'd install Qt via macports. Why would one do that instead of installing the Qt SDK ?
> All the command line tools are available in the SDK (in fact I do not even know if qtbuilder works, I'm sure it does though.)
> 

well, I would like to use MacPorts for controlling what I have on my computer. Specially the developer tools. Specially because I can activate/deactivate libraries and install different versions of them quite fast.

> If you were installing a package that needed Qt would not macports install Qt as needed and transparently?
> 

normally yes. Packages that depend on Qt install Qt transparently, but not in a developer friendly way

> Again, pardon my ignorance, debug with a framework ??? ummm qDebug() and gdb ???

I meant I would like to debug my program without problems and thousand of warning messages. As a developer I want to use gdb for debugging... and sometimes that can only be done if Qt was installed with the "+framework". However doing so will make Qt dependent packages break.