[Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements

[Ray Donnelly]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 10:20 AM Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 July 2018 at 14:05, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > On Saturday, 21 July 2018 16:52:44 PDT Jason Newton wrote:
> >> -Ability to build external libraries from source or pull in binary
> >> libraries
> >
> > This is not a feature. It's a misfeature.
> >
> > It's EXACTLY the reason our seniormost engineers spent three days trying
> to
> > upgrade TensorFlow in Clear Linux. That's not your junior guy who only
> knows
> > how to run "npn install". We're talking about people who had been
> building
> > stuff on Linux years before you'd ever heard about Linux.
>
> Clear Linux, hum? Are they re-inventing the wheel? And the hammer, the
> nail, and the saw, what have you...
>

On the Anaconda Distribution we expend significant ongoing engineer time
battling bazel too. We all detest it.


> "Kata Container with Clear Linux"? What an obscure technology, and
> what does it has to do with the Qt project and build system in
> general?
> So because Intel re-invents the wheel the Qt project shouldn't use
> this or that? Honestly, I fail to follow you here.
>
> Chris
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