[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Ray Donnelly]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 10:36 PM Richard Weickelt <richard at weickelt.de wrote:

>
> > Here in Fedora, we actually *want* CMake to find system libraries. The
> > situation on Windows is of course different, and third-party packages
> for
> > GNU/Linux may or may not want to use the system libraries, but our
> > distribution packages definitely want to use them.
>
> ... and if you cross-compile, you definetly don't want to your build system
> to stick its nose into your system librararies on any platform.
>
> Therefore I see build automation and packaging as orthogonal processes. IMO
> it lowers the usage complexity and leaves more room for flexibility when
> being kept separate. The package system would be responsible to resolve
> dependencies and could produce files that the build automation system would
> consume. I kind of like the idea behind Conan which does only package
> management, dependency resolution and provides simple-enough generators for
> all kinds of build automation system.
>
> The discussion about build systems reminds me a bit of a religious war. I
> made my peace with CMake and use it only when being paid for. It allows me
> to use the browser more often and to find obscure stuff on the internet.
> It's an expensive tool. After work I want to get my stuff done with low
> investment, hence I often use Qbs ;-)
>

That sounds like a very sensible approach Richard.

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> Richard
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