On 7 March 2017 at 19:12, Lars Knoll <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thiago's right that there has not been a formal decision in the Qt project > about the build system to use for Qt 6. So saying qbs will be the build > system for Qt 6 is getting a bit ahead of things. > > But we have had many discussions in the past as well, where the result was > that the people maintaining the Qt build system would like to see us using > qbs instead of qmake as the Qt build system in the future. This never lead > anywhere, as this would have required quite some work to implement the > functionality required in qbs. > > The Qt Company has now very recently made a decision to now go and invest > the man power required to turn qbs into a product we can fully support in > the future. This decision comes from the fact that we see that build > systems are a very integral part of the developer experience, and it's one > of the areas where we see that there still is a large potential for > improvement. qbs is promising to bring that improvement to us and our users. > > Pretty depressing since the discussions at the developer summit seemed to conclude the exact opposite. I wish those developers were working on something more useful than a new wheel.
Rich.
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