Qbs already has support for Visual Studio (https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qbs/generators.html), and support for Xcode is in development and might make the 1.11 release.
Visual Studio Code is rather interesting; no plans for that yet but it's something I definitely want to look at. > On Oct 24, 2017, at 7:18 PM, Christian Gagneraud <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is a friendly email, about something that i recently realised: > Wide adoption of Qbs is limited by IDE support of Qbs. > > The case I have is: > Our code base has 1 reference build system, and this is MSVC (and it sucks!). > Since our products (not Qbs product, my company's product) runs on embedded > Linux, the second build system used is qmake (we have a python script that > kind-of parse MSVC solution/projects, and puke qmake files). Since the python > script sucks too, some people have added support for CMake. And now there's > me: I am/was considering adding support for Qbs. > > Why Qbs cannot win over CMake? The answer is IDE support for the build system. > > Apparently Visual Studio and Visual Code (works on Linux too!) now both > support CMake in place of msvc, when (if it happens) will they support Qbs? > > I have co-worker who use Linux every-day, but yet they prefer Visual Code > over QtC, and visual code doesn't support Qbs, at this stage there is no > point in trying to push for Qbs, for this very simple reason > > Any thoughts? > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Qbs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qbs -- Jake Petroules - [email protected] The Qt Company - Silicon Valley Qbs build tool evangelist - qbs.io _______________________________________________ Qbs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qbs
