[Development] syncqt.pl in C++

[Thiago Macieira]

Em terça-feira, 7 de março de 2017, às 21:37:46 CET, Richard Moore escreveu:
> > The Qt Company has now very recently made a decision to now go and invest
> > the man power required to turn qbs into a product we can fully support in
> > the future. This decision comes from the fact that we see that build
> > systems are a very integral part of the developer experience, and it's one
> > of the areas where we see that there still is a large potential for
> > improvement. qbs is promising to bring that improvement to us and our
> > users.
> ​Pretty depressing since the discussions at the developer summit seemed to
> conclude the exact opposite.​ I wish those developers were working on
> something more useful than a new wheel.

Same here, though I have also to concede that breaking the status quo (to 
quote Jake's tweet) is sometimes a good idea. Teambuilder -- to name another 
Trolltech project that had nothing to do with qt -- was a couple of orders of 
magnitude better than the tools that existed at the time (distcc). Icecream/
icecc came about only because TB wasn't open source, but every now and then I 
miss TB2 features that icecc doesn't have. TB3 would have been even better.

Maybe qbs will be another such leapfrog. I can't fault TQtC for trying.

But as I said, I agree with Richard and I can't help but feel that the effort 
could have been turned into making cmake even better, especially considering 
everyone[*] (including Microsoft!) is using it.

[*] for some reason, the other project I work with (IoTivity) chose Scons. 
Ugh...
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