[Development] Specifying module dependencies

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 10 June 2015 18:47:49 Hausmann Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why do we need to pin anything beyond the regular git submodules handling of
> qt5.git (where the information is in the tree object)?

We used to. Whether we still need to do that in the new CI, you tell me.

> In think we should have a configuration file in each module listing required
> and optional dependencies. Qt.pro can interpret that file and so can the CI
> system. To the CI system the optional dependencies are also required ones.

Fair enough, then it needs to be a simple file format. Not JSON, not PSON, etc.

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