[Development] syncqt.pl in C++

[Jake Petroules]

> On Mar 6, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Em segunda-feira, 6 de março de 2017, às 21:25:48 CET, Egor Pugin escreveu:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm experimenting with own builds of qt and found that raw sources in
>> git repo (e.g. [1]) do not contain include dir. It is created by
>> bin/syncqt.pl, so we have a perl dependency.
> 
> Yes, we do. We've had that dependency for 15 years.

And it will go away once Qt moves to Qbs as its default build system in Qt 6.

> 
>> On later steps qt is built pretty good without any serious issues.
>> 
>> Is there any attempts to rewrite syncqt.pl in c++?
> 
> No.

It will be "rewritten" (although the replacement will not be a direct translation) in JavaScript when Qt moves to Qbs.

> 
>> Maybe someone, who tried to perform cmake-based build of qt,
>> investigated this question?
>> Could it be useful at all?
> 
> I don't think we'll accept it.

No, we won't. Qbs. ;)

> 
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