> On 7 Mar 2017, at 21:54, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > > Em terça-feira, 7 de março de 2017, às 21:37:46 CET, Richard Moore escreveu: >>> 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.
The discussions there were afai remember inconclusive. But the people that do the actual work on the build system were mostly positive towards qbs. > > Same here, though I have also to concede that breaking the status quo (to > quote Jake's tweet) is sometimes a good idea. Teambuilder -- to name another > Trolltech project that had nothing to do with qt -- was a couple of orders of > magnitude better than the tools that existed at the time (distcc). Icecream/ > icecc came about only because TB wasn't open source, but every now and then I > miss TB2 features that icecc doesn't have. TB3 would have been even better. > > Maybe qbs will be another such leapfrog. I can't fault TQtC for trying. That's what we believe. When we did the first version of Creator, everybody also thought we were nuts, and that we should rather integrate with Eclipse ;-) Cheers, Lars > > But as I said, I agree with Richard and I can't help but feel that the effort > could have been turned into making cmake even better, especially considering > everyone[*] (including Microsoft!) is using it. > > [*] for some reason, the other project I work with (IoTivity) chose Scons. > Ugh... > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
