[Development] QtCS 2018: Third-party and security policy

[Konstantin Tokarev]

13.07.2018, 17:57, "Mårten Nordheim" <marten.nordheim at qt.io>:
> On 13.07.2018 16:49, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
>>  El viernes, 13 de julio de 2018 10:59:09 -03 Mårten Nordheim escribió:
>>>  On 05.07.2018 16:48, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>>>  On Thursday, 5 July 2018 01:56:43 PDT Kai Koehne wrote:
>>>>>  PS: Notes from the session at the Qt Contributor Summit are available at
>>>>>  https://wiki.qt.io/QtCS2018_Third-Party_Sources_Policy_and_Security
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks Kai.
>>>>
>>>>  Do we have a volunteer to trial out vcpkg and explain to the rest of us
>>>>  how it would work for Qt? Will it be invisible to our users and
>>>>  ourselves? Note how Linux distros don't have it nor does Homebrew on Mac.
>>>
>>>  I implemented a POC here: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/234478/
>>>
>>>  I'm not sure if this is what people had in mind (e.g. installing
>>>  dependencies during configure), but it works at the moment for what I've
>>>  tested it for.
>>
>>  I understand this as: at configure time download 3rdparty code.
>
> That's how the current POC works, but it can/likely will change. And
> then you could use vcpkg to download your dependencies first and just
> let configure deal with picking up the libraries (for the most part).

Is it possible to use it for MinGW?

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Regards,
Konstantin