[Development] CMake branch

[Kari Oikarinen]

Could you explain the stated disadvantage further then?

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Kari

On 21.3.2019 14.21, Mikhail Svetkin wrote:
> It will not block CI.
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> Best regards,
> Mikhail
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> *From:* Kari Oikarinen
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 21, 2019 1:13 PM
> *To:* Mikhail Svetkin; development at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Development] CMake branch
> 
> 
> On 21.3.2019 14.00, Mikhail Svetkin wrote:
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>> Hi everyone!
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>> We’ve had an internal discussion about wip/cmake branch.
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>> We thought maybe it is a good idea to merge wip/cmake into dev branch.
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>> The advantages are:
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>>   - It allows our contributors to play with CMake in dev branch
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>>   - Speed-up the build of QtBase
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>>   - Easy to find a lot of bugs in CMake port
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>>   - CI could have a nightly build with CMake and generate a report
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>>   - We can synchronize CMakeFiles and *.pro files
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>> The disadvantages are:
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>>   - Any changes should be passed by CI
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>> Do you have any objections?
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> 
> Would this have blocking CI or not? The stated disadvantage (which surely
> shouldn't be entirely negative) implies that it would be. But the build being
> nightly hints that it would not be.
> 
> A blocking build would mean that all changes need to leave the CMake build
> working. So everyone would need to take care of both build systems. A more
> defined transition point and only one official build system at a time would be
> nicer. Or at least trying to minimize the time of having two.
> 
> Unless of course we'd already be ready to drop building Qt with qmake, but I
> guess that's not where we are yet. Is that expected to happen during 5.x series
> at all or only with Qt 6?
> 
> -- 
> Kari