[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Lars Knoll]

> On 30 Oct 2018, at 06:18, 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.

I’d be happy if Qbs development continues, and there is a place for it on qt-project if people want to continue developing it. But this is a bit a different thing from The Qt Company saying that the company will support this for commercial customers, especially given the fact that Qbs never was part of Qt itself.

Cheers,
Lars