[Development] Qt 5 types under consideration for deprecation / removal in Qt 6

[Olivier Goffart]

On 01.06.19 17:56, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 June 2019 03:46:34 PDT André Pönitz wrote:
>> I am getting mildly irritated by those ongoing suggestions (not just
>> yours) to use anything but Qt to get stuff done, even Qt's own tasks.
>> It's sending an odd message.
>>
>> Sure, one can pull e.g. any "plain C++" replacement for QXmlStreamReader
>> for rcc. With the usual non-Qt approaches this means either some other
>> 3rd party dependency or some ad-hoc implementation providing the
>> part of XML parsing rcc actually needs, or to switch over to another
>> .qrc format.
>>
>> At the end of the day, all that would be doable, but *why*?
> 
> I'm not suggesting we drop the Qt code from those tools. I'm suggesting that
> we un-bootstrap them after we make QtCore not require them at all.
> 
> If I can get powershell to produce a C-consumable hex dump of the file, we can
> get rid of rcc as a QtCore dependency. But rcc as a tool remains.

I also managed to get that done with a <10 lines of "plain cmake":

https://github.com/woboq/moc-ng/blob/7cfa2b65efaf836054977e5974f8f9c23b0cb057/src/CMakeLists.txt#L46-L54