[Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 1 August 2018 23:13:13 PDT BogDan Vatra via Development wrote:
> > Now that is nice, as we know that the moc, uic, rcc outputs are platform-
> > independent. That should help reduce the build times on Windows for
> > debug-and- release builds, as running moc is a significant portion of the
> > build time.
> 
>   It will be nice if this feature is mandatory for Qt 6, so let's add it to
> your requirements list.

No, this is "nice to have", not mandatory. A reduction in build time would be 
very welcome, but if we don't have it, the build still works.

>   BTW, not only moc, uic & rcc are platform-independent, but also the
> headers (except a few that are generated by configure script which can be
> moved to platform libs dir). What will be cool really is to unify headers,
> examples & demos for the Qt SDKs, this way we'll save a lot of space.

Sorry, I didn't get it. Can you clarify?

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