[Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 31 July 2018 at 20:49, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> I know CMake meets these requirements, but it has other problems and the fact
> that it currently does not build Qt. On that front, qbs is ahead. But qbs has
> a shorter track record. Since we're not switching buildsystems in the next 2
> years, there's time for the proponents of qbs to take actions to achieve those
> requirements above.
>
> In other words: get others to adopt the buildsystem before we switch Qt. Prove
> that it can support Qt.
>
> I know switching Qt would gain it a big critical mass, the same way that KDE
> switching to CMake in 2006 gave CMake an important boost [*]. But we're not
> switching Qt just yet, so if you're saying the tool is ready, get others to
> use it now.

This provoked a thought in me, a way to make qbs worth all its effort:
make debugging
a build so staggeringly ridiculously good that it becomes attractive
to use it. I don't know
what debugging builds done with python-based build systems is like,
but debugging make-based
builds is rather horrible.