[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:53:48PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 October 2018 12:29:46 PDT Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > doesn't authorize you to impose requirements that make it basically
> > impossible to employ qt as a bootstrapping device for a qbs
> > ecosystem.
> 
> The whole point was "let Qt not be the guinea pig".
>
you're essentially presuming that qbs is developed by a potentially
incompetent external entity.

> Show me that the tool can achieve what Qt needs for it to achieve
>
qtbase//wip/qbs2 speaks for itself.

> and has enough of a track record of a community to ask for help.
>
it has enough "community" and intrinsic quality to get things going.
asking for more is completely unreasonable before the community from
which the tool originates shows committment by *relying* on it. and as
the current situation shows, everyone who didn't trust the story was
*right*.