[Development] Other buildsystems

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 1 de November de 2011 17:44:29 André Pönitz wrote:
> A non-optional dependency on cmake for Qt 5.0 is not acceptable from my 
> perspective.

Nor mine.

Quoting André from IRC: a dependency on a buildsystem is acceptable if and 
only if it's the buildsystem that the codebase is built with.

A few more considerations:
 1) if (or hopefully, when) we switch away from qmake, we should strive to 
    maintain qmake compatibility for a while, but not increase our burden by 
    having too much burden.

 2) should all modules in qt5.git use the same buildsystem? I'd say that all 
    those enabled by that repository's buildsystem should use the same 
    buildsystem. However, for purposes of housekeeping and QA, submodule links 
    to repositories with other buildsystems is permitted. Note we haven't 
    discussed rules about adding or removing submodule links to addons yet.

 3) should modules hosted in qt-project.org use the same buildsystem? Not 
   sure, but I'd guess the answer is "no".

 4) Qt addons hosted elsewhere use whatever buildsystem their maintainers want 
    to use.

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