[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Lars Knoll]

On 30 Oct 2018, at 06:25, NIkolai Marchenko <enmarantispam at gmail.com<mailto:enmarantispam at gmail.com>> wrote:

> 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”.

No, you have a confirmation that we’ll keep it there for at least another year. If we have a proper maintainer for the Qbs integration, I do not see a reason why it couldn’t stay in creator for longer.

Cheers,
Lars


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:21 PM Uwe Rathmann <Uwe.Rathmann at tigertal.de<mailto: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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