[QBS] Do you use Qt4 to build qbs?

Orgad Shaneh orgads at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 16:29:05 CEST 2014


On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Denis Shienkov <denis.shienkov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Joerg.
>
> Please do not drop of Qt4 support :)
>
> I'm recently replace a big project (based on Qt4) to QBS from MSVC. Nobody
> want to port (won't pay me to additional work) this project on Qt5 from Qt4
> for QBS support, besides, this porting is a big risk.
>
> Currently we use QBS in own Qt4 project to build of the WIX installer on
> Windows, and to build the deb packages on Linux.
>
> If you will drop QBS then it will be big problem for us.. :)
>
> BR,
> Denis
>
> 2014-10-17 13:51 GMT+04:00 Joerg Bornemann <
> joerg.bornemann at theqtcompany.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we're contemplating to drop support for building qbs with Qt4.
>> This will enable us to remove a tiny bit of legacy code, reduce the load
>> on our test machines and - most importantly - use more Qt5 features,
>> like QJSEngine etc.
>>
>> If you have a strong argument why you need to build qbs with Qt4, please
>> speak now, or forever hold your peace.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Joerg
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He meant building Qbs itself, not the projects it builds...

- Orgad
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