Re: gambas3.desktop install idea to detect installed toolkits...

[Tim Dickson <dickson.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

that may cause some issues. If you create a package, and it is 
installed, then the user installs something extra, like qt5 or 6 for 
example, the desktop would still point to the lib option used when it 
was installed, so you would have to reinstall gambas to fix it. When the 
installer compares old and new files for updating it would fail to 
compare the dynamic desktop file. ( not a massive deal, as it is being 
treated like a config file), but if you wanted to step back to a 
previous config, you would not be able to, so by installing a ui lib 
after install, then reinstalling you would get different behaviour which 
you would have to be aware of for debugging, if say for example there is 
a ui lib related gambas bug in the different ui lib installed.
Some distro's have many options available, so which one is chosen by the 
script on install?.

The old method of not specifying, then manually specifying by env 
variable or calling option is less prone to confusion in my opinion, 
unless I am misunderstanding the subject.
regards, Tim

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