[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Christian Gagneraud]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 01:17, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
>
> Hi all,

Hi Lars,

Playing the devil's advocate here.

May I ask: Which democratic/meritocratic  process was used to take
this decision?
I do understand that the QtC is the Qbs instigator/maintainer, so
nobody can blame you for pulling the plug off and adjusting resources
allocation.

Who/when/where was the decision of switching to CMake taken?
Any trace record? A vote, a ballot, something? I havent's hear of any
"Qt Project" event/announcement recently.
So far i've seen some broad (but useful) un-authoritative requirements
from Thiago,
followed by a lengthy (endless) discussion, and suddenly your email
that seems to announce the result of the "election".
When did the election happened?

So some claims that build systems are no "The Qt Company" business,
yet you're about to take the road of having to bend a dinosaur (CMake,
that's a personal opinion) to suit your modern requirements.
Are you planning to have Qt employees fix CMake?

Then why spend energy/money to fix something that is broken by design?
(Again, that is a personal opinion, if needed to say)

No conspiracy here, but i have a few more questions (not related, in
no particular order)
- Did Jake left the QtC due to your early decision to drop qbs? ( I
personally do think that the decision was taken long time ago)
- Did you drop Qbs due to it's "unsolvable" dependency on deprecated Qt Script?
- Any track record that Qbs was not fit for the job? (Please no "we
can't build Qt with it", as you cannot build Qt with anything but
qmake right now)

Sincerely,
Chris