[Development] Moving build-time tools into qtbase.git.

lars.knoll at nokia.com lars.knoll at nokia.com
Mon Dec 5 10:43:23 CET 2011


On 11/30/11 10:59 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>On Thursday, 1 de December de 2011 02.39.23, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> Yes, I understand the need to have the tools compiled for the host
>> architecture when cross compiling, but I don't understand why that was
>> brought  up in the context of moving the source code for the tools to a
>> different repo.
>> 
>> It is probably just unrelated.
>
>Somewhat.
>
>The tools were in tools/ in Qt 4.x, which is now the qttools repository.
>Moving to qtbase is, in my mind, "move to src/tools", which is where the
>bootstrapped tools are.
>
>It's not necessary to bootstrap those tools. Given what Ossi said, I
>think we 
>shouldn't do it for the linguist tools. However, I'd like to see it done
>for 
>the D-Bus ones.

I agree. The linguist tools belong together with the linguist app. The
dbus tools should be wherever dbus is.

Cheers,
Lars




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