[QBS] Do you use Qt4 to build qbs?

Denis Shienkov denis.shienkov at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 16:31:31 CEST 2014


> He meant building Qbs itself, not the projects it builds...

Ahh.. Sorry.. Then it is irrelevant for me. :)

2014-10-17 18:29 GMT+04:00 Orgad Shaneh <orgads at gmail.com>:

> 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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