[Interest] qt.git: broken v5.6.0 .gitmodules?

[Sze Howe Koh]

On 11 December 2017 at 09:35, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On domingo, 10 de dezembro de 2017 14:50:33 PST Christian Gagneraud wrote:
> > > Use git submodule. Or just download the sources that match this tag.
> >
> > I'm thinking about downloading the source archives, but i'm not sure if
> > they contain absolutely everything, like:
> > - I need webengine from qt
>
> qtwebengine is part of the release tarballs as well as the repository. I don't
> know what you mean by "source archives" but it must surely mean one of those
> two. There is not third option.
>
> > - I need (ideally) qbs from qtc.
>
> That's not part of Qt. You can find qbs in the qbs releases.
>
> > For those interested, here is my (WIP) docker project:
> > https://gitlab.com/chgans/qtcreator-x86_32-docker-image
> >
> > I'm planning to add Qt-5.9 too.
> >
> > As a side note: My point about ini-repository broken script is that it
> > is a very bad experience as a paid-customer.
>
> The script is only meant for developers of the project itself. In that sense,
> you're neither a paid customer or an open source user: you're a Qt developer.
> Using that hat, you're going to check out the 5.6 branch, not a tag, and much
> less a non-current tag, at least until the time you're trying to fix a bug and
> prove a regression.
>
> That's why the script hasn't worked for a couple of years now for tag releases
> and no one has noticed. No one has needed that functionality until you, just
> now. And besides, there are alternatives and the correct one (git submodules,
> despite what the wiki says) is not known to have any problems.
>
> > Luckily i'm all in for the
> > "Qt Project/company", but new customer might be disappointed when they
> > realise that the build instructions/systems are out of date and/or broken.
>
> Don't blindly trust wikis. And do fix them if you run into issues.

I hope this helps clarify things:
https://wiki.qt.io/index.php?title=Building_Qt_5_from_Git&type=revision&diff=32377&oldid=31996


> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center

Regards,
Sze-Howe