[Development] Other buildsystems

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 11/1/11 7:31 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>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".

I'd say "no, but using the default build system is strongly encouraged".

Lars

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