[Development] How about the future of qbs after Nokia sells Qt to Digia?

[Turunen Tuukka]

Thanks Marius and Thiago for explaining this issue.

It is like you said: QBS is an interesting new approach, but 5.0 will use
qmake. To me QBS looks promising, but at the moment we have many items to
tackle first such as the transition and getting Qt 5.0 out.

Also note that we can not do any decisions before closing even if we
wanted to. We can plan, so in that context discussion of things like QBS
are naturally fine.

I think the whole Qt Project should mainly focus in getting 5.0 out as
good as we can because it will be a very important measure of how well the
Qt Project operates for all the users of Qt.

Yours,

		Tuukka 
 






On 12.8.2012 5.11, "marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com"
<marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com> wrote:

>On 11/08/2012 16:07, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
>...
>> It *looks* like Diego was actually asking about whether Qt intends to
>>switch
>> to qbs as its own buildsystem. If that was the question, here's the
>>answer:
>>
>> 	There has been NO decision
>
>I actually want to make it even more clear, there _HAS_ been a decision
>_NOT_ to change the build system for Qt 5.0, to ensure that there's full
>focus on getting Qt 5 itself into tip top shape.
>
>Depending on the feedback for Qt 5.0, and the timing, I can also imagine
>that this will be put on hold for Qt 5.1, if we need to compress the
>release schedule between 5.0 and 5.1.
>
>IMO, the switch of build systems is secondary, the quality and
>usefulness of Qt is primary.
>
>
>..and please, let's not rehash the buildsystem discussions again right
>now, we have better things to do to get Qt 5.0 out.
>
>(Don't get me wrong, I don't mind dicussing it again, but now is not the
>time.)
>
>
>> Many people, including me, want to move away from qmake, the Unix
>>configure
>> script and the Windows configure application, towards a better, more
>>flexible
>> and more maintainable buildsystem. In particular, I'd like to see us do
>>that
>> by 5.1.
>>
>> But the Qt Project has not decided *IF* it's going to switch and, if
>>so, which
>> buildsystem it will select.
>>
>> Though from all likelihood, after the 5.1 branch is created, people
>>will be
>> allowed to work on implementing a different buildsystem for Qt and
>>propose it
>> to the project, citing pros and cons. Only after the work is underway
>>and we
>> can compare the competing solutions will we select one.
>
>-- 
>.marius
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