[Qt5-feedback] Qt5's qmake

[Doug Schaefer]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 de May de 2011 12:18:50 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>> > Since cmake already has Qt4 support built-in, I assume it'll be pretty
>> > straightforward to add Qt5, no? I think a lot of Qt devs would be
>> > happy enough with that.
>>
>> I don't think there is any question of that going away. Many of us at
>> Kitware use Qt on a daily basis in large and small projects, and the
>> CMake GUI is also Qt based. I would love to see even tighter
>> integration with Qt, and know of several of us who will be building Qt
>> 5 early releases, testing it with CMake and our code.
>
> Oh yeah. qmake might be what Qt4 uses today. What Qt 5 will use, we'll see --
> it might be qmake, it might be cmake, it could also be something else. We'll
> see.
>
> But that doesn't mean anything about third-party apps and libs. They can use
> what's more comfortable for them. And it's really important to have support in
> CMake and maybe a few other buildsystems too. It's clear that qmake doesn't
> support all use-cases, so having options for those other cases is good.

That's a good point. Throughout this discussion I get confused about
whether we're talking about building Qt apps or the Qt framework
itself. For Qt apps, we can use whatever we want. The Qt devs will
pick whatever they feel best for themselves.

Doug.