[Development] Announcing moc_combine

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 31 de maio de 2016 09:45:40 BRT Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > the next idea would be implementing moc inside the compiler itself,
> > which is possible with at least clang and gcc nowadays.
> >
> > the last idea is doing away with moc entirely, at the cost of somewhat
> > uglier macros, and actually working c++11/14 support in the compiler.
> >
> > "incidentally", olivier has more-or-less working solutions based on the
> > latter two ideas.
> 
> Which impose many more requirements on the compilers. And we support many
> more  compiler in Qt.

I don't see us dropping the current moc until at least Qt 7 or when Microsoft 
Visual Studio is no longer relevant.

I think we should provide moc-ng as an optional dependency, but neither 
bundled with Qt nor a requirement to build Qt or a user's project.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center