[Development] syncqt.pl in C++

[Egor Pugin]

I see. Thanks.

On 7 March 2017 at 01:32, Jake Petroules <Jake.Petroules at qt.io> wrote:
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>> 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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Egor Pugin