[Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements

Dominik Holland dominik.holland at pelagicore.com
Fri Aug 3 08:21:19 CEST 2018


Am 01.08.18 um 16:40 schrieb Ville Voutilainen:

> On 1 August 2018 at 11:24, Jason Newton <nevion at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And... seriously, *Java*?! Talk about bloat-ware... As dependencies for
>>> *a build tool* go, that's pretty insane. Especially if you're not
>>> planning to use it to build Java code.
>> As I said, ~300-400 megabytes for a JRE (~90MiB DL), in particular
>> openjdk , prospectively in a development environment where you've got
>> devel headers and packages installed.   The cost of the dependency is
>> neither bloat nor unbounded, it really is just that size on a machine
>> that's prepared to build software in 2018.  Please explain what issue
>> this presents.
> The prospect of having to install a JRE to build Qt or eventually Qt
> applications
> solicits a fairly loud "I think I'll pass" from me. I don't use java
> for anything. Having
> it around for a supposedly simple and easy-to-adopt build system is a cost
> that I am not eager to pay. Do we expect to package a JRE with Qt? Do we
> expect a JRE to be a package dependency of Qt for distro vendors?
That would also have a big inpact on the yocto packages, as that would
require building java itself to compile Qt (yocto usually doesn't use
prepackaged binaries...),
and also compile it again for the SDK architecture...

For me JRE as a Qt build dependency is a no-go

Dominik




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