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

[Konstantin Tokarev]

31.05.2019, 00:19, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> On Thursday, 30 May 2019 11:43:54 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>>  Does it mean that moc will be reimplemented to avoid using Qt classes?
>
> No, but moc should be the only bootstrapped tool. My point is that we should
> do away with the bootstrap library.
>
> All other tools should like to QtCore. That means:
>
> 1) rcc should not be used in QtCore (easy to fix, can do in Qt 5 even)
>
> 2) all other tools in non-cross builds link to QtCore, as they do now
>
> 3) all tools in cross builds link to a host QtCore that must be preinstalled
> Preferably, reuse the tools from that host build instead of building again

The latter item implies that there should be some compatibility gurantees allowing
to use tools from Qt 6.x when building Qt 6.y, otherwise it will be really inconvenient

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Regards,
Konstantin