On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 08:42:50PM +0200, Richard Weickelt wrote: > Tobias, > > I think it is of utmost importance for the survival of Qbs that it is > fully supported by an IDE like QtCreator. > > > Note that this is about the build system used to *build Qt Creator > > with*, not about *build systems supported by Qt Creator*. I would > > personally like to keep qbs supported as a build system for projects > > in Qt Creator for as long as it is feasible. > > What would yo define as the minimum criteria for keeping Qbs supported > in Qt Creator? > > > The challenge will be Qt 6: Creator will use Qt 6 ASAP and since qbs > > is linked into Creator, that will also need to be ported to Qt 6 to > > stay feasible. > > Do you already have an idea when QtCreator will switch to Qt 6? Given > the current release plan https://wiki.qt.io/Qt5Releasing, I expect the > first release of Qt6 to happen around November 2020.
It surely won't be before that. For Qt4->Qt5 we kept the code compilable with both for more than a year, already to have a test bed for Qt4->Qt5 regressions. I'd like to try the same for 5->6. Andre' _______________________________________________ Qbs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qbs
