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#8
Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Why can't I install multiple versions of the same library and have them running alongside each other?
That would fix a lot of things.

Windows solved this problem about 10 years ago, so I'm quite surprised Linux can't do it.
It's not a Linux issue per se, it's the way Nokia decided to package Qt that is the problem (I'm sure they had their reasons, but that's not helping us in this particular case). If someone really-really wanted, they could make bindings installable in parallel, too, but it's very dirty with all sorts of pathmongering and changes to the import statements, likely to cause more trouble than it's worth.
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