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+Frequently Asked Questions
+==========================
+
+**When did The Qt Company adopt PySide6?**
+ In April 2016 `The Qt Company <https://qt.io>`_ decided to properly support the port. For more
+ information, see `<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pyside-dev/pqwzngAGLWE>`_.
+
+**Why use PySide6 and not PySide?**
+ Since PySide was developed for Qt 4, we now use PySide6 to imply that it is for a newer version,
+ after it was ported to support Qt 5.
+
+**Where I can find information about the old PySide project?**
+ The project's old wiki page is available on PySide, but the project is now deprecated and not
+ supported.
+
+**There are three wheels (pyside6, shiboken6, and shiboken6_generator), what's the difference?**
+
+ Before the official release, everything was in one big wheel, so it made sense to split these
+ into separate wheels, each for the major projects currently in development:
+
+ * **pyside6**: contains all the PySide6 modules to use the Qt framework; also depends on the
+ shiboken6 module.
+ * **shiboken6**: contains the shiboken6 module with helper functions for PySide6.
+ * **shiboken6_generator**: contains the generator binary that can work with a C++ project and a
+ typesystem to generate Python bindings.
+ If you want to generate bindings for a Qt/C++ project, there won't be any linking to the Qt
+ shared libraries; you need to do this by hand. We recommend building PySide6 from scratch
+ to have everything properly linked.
+
+**Why is the shiboken6_generator not installed automatically?**
+ It's not necessary to install the shiboken6_generator to use PySide6. The package is a result of
+ the wheel splitting process. To use the generator, it's recommended to build it from scratch to
+ have the proper Qt linking.