[Development] Build system for Qt 6

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 30 October 2018 13:56:45 PDT NIkolai Marchenko wrote:
> > and has enough of a track record of a community to ask for help.
> 
> You quite literally have the system's developer in house.
> Why do you even need to rely on the community so much?
> I'd understand if qbs was an external tool, but that's not the case.

Because it's a sign of maturity. If the only people who can solve any problem 
are the handful of people who work for the company that developed it, we have 
a serious Bus Factor problem. And guess what? It's exactly what's happening 
right now.

Ossi and several others are right that qbs was never given a proper chance. It 
hasn't.

The only thing I'm criticising is that its proper chance involves Qt being the 
guinea pig. Find someone else instead and grow your community. Get track 
record for building, cross-compiling, working with weird set ups, 
containerised build environments, build farms, etc. Don't ask Qt to switch to 
it until you've done that work.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center