[Development] Qt 5.8.0 Beta packages available for testing

[Massimo Callegari]

> > Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Em terça-feira, 25 de outubro de 2016, às 07:38:34 PDT, Massimo Callegari
> > > 
> > > via Development escreveu:
> > >> Hi, please add the following to the blockers list:
> > >> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-56164
> > > 
> > > That's not a bug, so it can't be a blocker.
> > 
> > It's a regression, ergo it is a bug.
>
> It was never supported, therefore it can't be a bug, much less a regression. 
> Indeed we removed some functionality, but one that was technically abusing 

> qmake because it wasn't supported.

That is not true. See the official Qt documentation, end of page, "Configuration Features" paragraph:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-project-files.html

Honestly I don't care much if it was there by mistake or unsupported or whatever. It was a usable feature. Period.

As I stated before, pkg-config is fundamental to access libraries outside of Qt's scope, either on Linux, MSYS2 on Windows or Homebrew/Macports on Mac OS, so we need to keep on having that feature from Qt.

If you want developers to stop having such access, then I would much like call it a regression and IMHO it should be fixed before releasing Qt 5.8.0.