[Development] On qbs use inside Qt

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 2/16/12 1:35 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>On quinta-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2012 12.47.02, Mathias Hasselmann
>wrote:
>> > But if the qbs devs want to start adding files to the Qt installation
>>like
>> > the  current pkg-config, cmake and libtool files, they can. I would
>> > personally request that they make a 1.0 release of their tool first.
>> 
>> I have to disagree: A basic principle for developing software are
>> use-cases. For applications you get them from UI spec. For good
>> libraries you get them from non-trivial applications. For build systems
>> you get them from existing, non-trivial software you try to build.
>> 
>> For QBS it is natural to use something complex like QtCreator or Qt
>> itself as test bed.
>> 
>> Like you said above, QBS support would be optional. So you would see no
>> harm from their iterations: Causal people would stick to qmake, and
>> whatever.
>
>I'm not sure I understand you, Mathias...
>
>What I mean is that the people developing qbs are free to do so and even
>try 
>to compile qtbase or Qt Creator with it. I'd love to see them get qtbase
>up 
>and running, including solving the bootstrapping problem.
>
>In addition, since the decision was made to allow .cmake files to be
>included 
>as part of the Qt build and install them, we can't now say QBS files
>can't get 
>the same right.
>
>What I don't want, based on what Lars said, is to see files that attempt
>to 
>build qtbase with QBS in the master branch. That is going to disrupt
>other 
>work. Use branches for that feature development.

Yes, please. Feature development (and this counts as it) happens in
branches. We integrate when the feature is done and we're not feature
frozen. The next possibility for that is 5.1.

Cheers,
Lars

>
>I can't make the decision for Qt Creator though, but I'd expect them to
>do the 
>same (which means rejecting change 16019).
>
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