[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Uwe Rathmann]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:59:28 +0100, Olivier Goffart wrote:

> What Lars said, if I read the email properly, is that the Qt Company
> does not see a business value in developing it further.

Yes and this is relevant if it is relevant for the maintainers of Qbs. Do 
we have a statement from them so far ?

> But the project is open source and the code is there and anyone is free
> to take over if they are interested in it.

In case a maintainer decides to step down the normal process would be to 
find a new one. Only if this is not possible further steps have to be 
taken.

Using Qbs for building Qt has been discussed here and lead to a solid 
decision against it. Obviously then the Qt company decided not to work on 
this code anymore - so far so good.

But deprecating Qbs as a tool for building user projects is absolutely 
not covered by this discussion and if there was a more related one I seem 
to have missed it.

This all has a lot to do with the question if the Qt Company sees itself 
as being a member or the owner of the Qt project. If we really want to be 
a community project, then the process of inventing and deprecating 
modules has to become more independent.

Uwe