[Development] Qt Project 'official way' and maintenance? (Was: Qt 5.1.0 rc2 is out)

[Tor Arne Vestbø]

On 7/1/13 15:41 , Sergio Ahumada wrote:
> On 07/01/2013 03:31 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> On Monday, July 01, 2013 12:48:52 Turunen Tuukka wrote:
>>> The official way [for third parties] to build is using qmake and make.
>>
>> Given that I am officially maintaining the cmake files for third parties to
>> use in my Qt Project role, what exactly makes that unofficial?
>
> What makes it official ? Has this been discussed ?
>
> I do agree with you that cmake has caught some problems and that you
> have put lots of effort in maintaining it, but I am not quite sure
> that's enough to make it official.
>
> If we want to make it official (and blocking in CI and stopping a
> release), then it should be publicly discussed IMHO.

There is also the question of platform support. Is cmake as relevant on 
Windows or OSX as it is on Linux? More so?

tor arne