[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Иван Комиссаров]

I guess, VS still will support QBS in case VS generator is working.
Unfortunately, Xcode generator doesn't, I checked recently.

Иван Комиссаров

> 30 окт. 2018 г., в 11:25, NIkolai Marchenko <enmarantispam at gmail.com> написал(а):
> 
> > Yes and this is relevant if it is relevant for the maintainers of Qbs. Do 
> we have a statement from them so far ?
> 
> We have a confirmation from Lars that QtCreator is dropping qbs support in a year. 
> That basically reads "qbs dead as there will be no IDE supporting it left".
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:21 PM Uwe Rathmann <Uwe.Rathmann at tigertal.de> wrote:
>> 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
>> 
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