[Development] Proposing to move deploy tools to qtbase

Volker Hilsheimer volker.hilsheimer at qt.io
Thu Nov 25 17:48:49 CET 2021


> On 25 Nov 2021, at 17:03, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:40:14 MST Joerg Bornemann wrote:
>> The patches that do the move are here:
>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/382055
>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qttools/+/382099
>> 
>> Please review.
> 
> Belated -1 after testing. Can I ask that it be reverted?
> 
> This has broken the cross-compilation from Linux to Windows, which is the only 
> way I can develop for Windows while in the pandemic and without access to a 
> proper Windows machine.

Uh, how do you run tests on Windows without at least a VM?

(slightly off-topic; hopefully the issue can be fixed swiftly. But I’m curios how it’s possible to be productive with writing any cross-platform code without a local VM to run it on…)

Volker



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