[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[NIkolai Marchenko]

> Thus this investment would be at the expense of other things we’d like to
do, like improving our IDE, working on rearchitecting and cleaning up our
core frameworks for Qt 6 or the design tooling we are currently investing
into. The Qt Company believes that those other investments are more
important for the future of Qt than our choice of build tool.

I don't understand. Will it not be a return on the investment when people
use Qt "because their build tool is the best around" ?
Project files are at the root of every project. There are all sorts of good
IDEs around but ppl mostly are forced to use CMAKE which no one seems to
like.
QBS might have been that crucial difference going for qt. Much more
important than any IDE echancment.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:33 PM Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:42 PM Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 12:24 Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > > On 30 Oct 2018, at 05:00, Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > > - 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)
>>> >
>>> > No, of course one could have made it support building Qt. There were
>>> some missing items like the configuration system and some other things, all
>>> of those could of course have been implemented.
>>>
>>> How CMake will solve the 'configuration' problem. Will CMake allow us
>>> to build for, say, QNX, GreenHill, VxWorks, and the likes? I doubt!
>>> Everyone is bragging about open source (me first), but the Qt market
>>> is medical, automotive and avionics/space industry, isn't it? How will
>>> CMake cope with that?
>>> CMake is not even aware that they are other OS behind WIndows and
>>> Linux Desktop....
>>>
>>
>> CMake is used in Automotive.
>>
>> Here is a link to the blog of one of the QNX's Eclipse CDT contributors,
>> and there you can see how hard it is to write a CMake toolchain file for
>> QNX: https://cdtdoug.ca/2017/10/06/qnx-cmake-toolchain-file.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cristian.
>>
>
> And here is the link with the nightly builds that run on the CMake code
> base:
>
> https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake&date=2018-10-29#!/%23Nightly_Expected
>
> There are quite some platform combinations there. QNX is not there because
> of licensing I suppose.
>
> Cheers,
> Cristian.
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