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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 30 November 2011, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently lupdate, lrelease, qdbusxml2cpp and qdbuscpp2xml are not in the
> qtbase repo, they are in qttools instead, along with designer, qdbusviewer,
> linguist etc.
> 
> I don't think qttools is the right place for those build-time-useful tools.
> 
> If I want to use the QtDBus module, I want to be able to use the tools to
> generate xml and c++ interfaces for dbus.
> 
> Currently qmake has some macros for that (features/dbusadaptors.prf and
> features/dbusinterfaces.prf) which expect to be able to find the tools.
> 
> Those macros are in qtbase. The executables may or may not be installed.
> They may even be installed to a different prefix. I am not sure if qmake
> actaully checks for their existence, or looks for them, or bails out if
> not found.
> 
> CMake has similar macros for generating dbus interfaces and adaptors, which
> I'll need to put somewhere in a Qt repo, probably alongside the tools. With
> the tools in their current location, that would mean:
> 
> find_package(QtDbus) # For libQtDBus.so
> find_package(QtTools) # For qdbusxml2cpp, and designer, linguist, etc.
> 
> designer and linguist don't really have anything to do with these
> build-time tools. It would be much more sensible to have
> find_package(QtDbus) also find the executables, but I can only do that if
> they come from the same repo.
> 
> For lupdate the situation is a bit more complicated because it depends on
> qmldevtools, but that's solvable.
> 
> For now I'm interested in floating the general idea of putting build-time-
> tools into qtbase.git instead of qttools.git. 

Sounds reasonable IMO.

Alex