[Development] The sorry state of the Qt6 cross compile experience

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi BogDan,

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 12:30 BogDan Vatra via Development <
development at qt-project.org> wrote:

> - first and foremost, we need to waste time to **fully** build and install
> it
> for host platform (desktop). Yeah, I know that this was "decided" before
> TQC
> switched, overnight, to cmake, but let's face it, it's a BS needed to
> cover
> the fact that cmake can't build more than one platform at once.
>

We had the requirement to enable exactly that to stop wasting time in the
CI. This would have need to be met by any buildsystem used for Qt6.

<snip>

No need to discuss implementation details ...

- IMHO the qmake build files were removed prematurely ... they should be
> removed **after** cmake matched qmake.
>

Making the old build system match the new one was never a goal.

Less maintenance effort was a goal, as was improving common use cases and
not making less important use cases impossible.

Having said that, I truly believe that cmake is a big step backwards.
> Am I the only one who's bother by all these things?
>

Some people always end up unhappy when you change things -- and when you do
not change things. Sorry that you ended up on the unhappy side!

We have a huge elephant in the room which nobody want to see it...
>

If that is your biggest concern about Qt right now: Lucky you.

Best Regards,
Tobias
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