[Development] Switch the main "Qt Build System"

[Bogdan Vatra]

În ziua de marți, 9 iunie 2020, la 13:46:48 EEST, Edward Welbourne a scris:
> On 6/9/20 7:22 AM, Bogdan Vatra via Development wrote:
> >>> - if you'll not support/trash all .pro/.pri files how we'll push
> >>> fixes for 5.15 branch ? Because right now we can't push fixes
> >>> directly to 5.15.  branch and all the fixes must go trough dev
> >>> branch first.
> 
> În ziua de marți, 9 iunie 2020, la 10:35:33 EEST, Joerg Bornemann a scris:
> >> All changes that do not apply to Qt6 must go to 5.15.  It's not true
> >> that we can't push fixes to 5.15 anymore.
> 
> Bogdan Vatra (9 June 2020 12:12)
> 
> > If I have a fix which involves also changes to some .pr* files, where
> > it should go? In dev I can't push it because you nuked the .pr* files,
> > in 5.15 I'm banned.
> 
> This is by no means unique to .pr[fio] files: there's lots of code that
> we've deleted on dev, that shall need fixes on 5.15.  When a fix gets
> picked to 5.15, there is a risk that it'll apply and maybe even
> integrate; if so, a follow-up commit only on 5.15 can supply the parts
> of the change that aren't present on dev.  More usually, the pick will
> get conflicts or fail to integrate, so you'll get the chance to amend
> the picked commit on 5.15.  (Even in the first case, if you get the mail
> promptly, you can potentially unstage the pick before it gets integrated
> and fix it likewise.)
> 
> This applies to all the code that's being deleted on dev, including but
> by no means limited to qmake's configuration.
> 

But how can I send a fix to a .pr* file in dev if that file doesn't exists 
anymore in dev? In this case should we send the patches directly to 5.15. and 
add the "Cherry-pick: dev" thing to the patch message?

Cheers,
BogDan.