[Development] Build system for Qt 6

Konstantin Shegunov kshegunov at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 21:48:30 CET 2018


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 9:09 PM Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

> On Tuesday, 30 October 2018 10:26:15 PDT Konstantin Shegunov wrote:
> > From my point of view qbs is doomed as long as qmake's alive. Either kill
> > qmake and force the developers using Qt (or developing Qt) to use qbs
>
> That's not going to happen any more than our breaking source compatibility
> in
> a major way.
>

Fair enough. As a consequence qbs gets rather limited exposure, thus it's
not a priority for development.
To make matters worse smaller user base means smaller amount of
bugreports/fixes. Less fixes in turn leads to buggier/quirkier system
leading to fewer people using it. And the circle is complete - unfortunate,
but somewhat expected.
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