[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[NIkolai Marchenko]

I don't understand how can Qt just let QBS die like that. It's absolutely
fantastic.
I really hope open source development happens becuase ti will be bloody
shame if ti doesn't :(


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:54 AM Ola Røer Thorsen <ola at silentwings.no>
wrote:

>
>> > >> We have been developing Qbs over the last years, and as such are
>> > >> committed to it for some more time. We are planning on another
>> feature
>> > >> release in the first quarter of next year and will support it in Qt
>> > >> Creator for at least another year.
>>
>
> This is _really_ disappointing news. I'd be happy to see qmake go, now
> this.
>
> We (at work, commercial Qt license) recently ported a rather big build
> system to Qbs, replacing qmake and scons. We now have good IDE integration
> for all our projects in QtCreator, both the Qt-based applications as well
> as pure C/C++-based projects for desktop, embedded Linux and "bare metal"
> embedded. We spent some time debugging and reporting/fixing bugs in Qbs
> too. Now with Qbs 1.12.0 we're having good and stable results. Incremental
> builds are _very_ fast. Project files are easy to set up, read and extend,
> even with custom code generation rules, things we never were able to do
> with (even undocumented) qmake. It's really impressive.
>
> Well I guess all that was for nothing, let's rewrite the build system next
> year again, and make really sure not to embrace new Qt technologies so fast
> next time.
>
> Cheers,
> Ola
>
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