[Development] Future of QBS

Christian Gagneraud chgans at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 06:38:53 CEST 2017


On 16 October 2017 at 15:42, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Christian Gagneraud wrote:
>> I would resume this post as "I love CMake, CMake is the only way.
>> You're all wrong."
>> This post doesn't explain anything, doesn't gives any analysis, no
>> comparison, no argument whatsoever, nothing.
>
> It makes one important point (and elaborates it to great lengths): developer
> familiarity. Even if QBS were actually a lot better than CMake (something I
> am also very sceptical about), it would still be universally hated simply
> because it is not what developers (and distribution packagers!) know.

Universally, really? In your world maybe, not in mine.

Anyway, I think the discussion is turning sterile, at least for me.
You are free to make your own choice, and so am I.

In case my wording sounded harsh, I would like to let you know that I
am genuinely happy for you to be in charge of CMake support, I mean
it.

Chris



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