[QBS] state and future of qbs

[BogDan]

> 

>G ood news, everyone!
> We got clearance to put some more work into qbs!
> 
> In the last weeks we cleaned up a lot, stabilized crucial parts, removed 
> experimental code and enhanced the overall usability. The most visible 
> changes are:
> 
> - There's only the file extension "qbs" now. The toplevel project 
> doesn't have to be put in a "qbp" file anymore.
> - The config command behaves sane.
> - Wildcard support, thanks to Ruslan.
> - Incremental builds are now as fast as promised.
> 
> We now switched our focus to milestone 0.3. The complete list of issues 
> that have been resolved for 0.2 can be seen here:
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+QBS+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.2%22+AND+status+%3D+Resolved+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC
> 
> The most mentionable issues for 0.3 are:
> - Qt Creator plugin.
> - Proper deployment support.
> - Fix ridiculously huge memory usage / performance penalty of loader.
> 
> The full list for 0.3 is here:
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+QBS+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.3%22+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC%2C+key+DESC
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jörg
> 

Hi Jörg,

This are indeed very good news. (Disclaimer: I'm (one of) the biggest fun of qbs :) ).
I checked qbs a few days ago, when I tried to create a qbs plugin for KDevelop,
and I think I've found an issue regarding platforms/profiles settings.
It seems that platforms and profiles are independent from each other, but I think 
profiles should be linked to  platforms(toolchanins). I can not use x86 qt to 
compile arm apps !
IMHO a better approach is to use something similar to QtCreator Kits, every
kit will contain a single toolchain and one or more qt "profiles". 

Cheers,
BogDan.