Re: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-04-01 Thread Scott Aron Bloom
To: development@qt-project.org Subject: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows As you may know, Lars is leading an effort to modularize the build system. One of the big headaches we have is that Windows uses a completely separate configure.exe, leading to a lot of duplicate

Re: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-04-01 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2016 07:13:25 PDT Knoll Lars wrote: > >I want to point this out: > > > >On quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2016 22:48:35 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > >> On sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2016 05:16:33 PDT Tvete Paul wrote: > > > > > >It's still March 31st. > > > You’re

Re: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-04-01 Thread Welbourne Edward
> On 01/04/16 07:49, Thiago Macieira wrote: >> I want to point this out: >> >> On quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2016 22:48:35 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote: >>> On sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2016 05:16:33 PDT Tvete Paul wrote: >> >> It's still March 31st. Lars Knoll replied: > You’re just living in the

Re: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-04-01 Thread André Somers
Op 01/04/2016 om 07:49 schreef Thiago Macieira: I want to point this out: On quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2016 22:48:35 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote: On sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2016 05:16:33 PDT Tvete Paul wrote: It's still March 31st. April Fools rules, #27: all jokes refer to the jokers'

Re: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-04-01 Thread Knoll Lars
On 01/04/16 07:49, "Development on behalf of Thiago Macieira" wrote: >I want to point this out: > >On quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2016 22:48:35 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote: >> On sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2016 05:16:33 PDT Tvete Paul wrote: > >It's still March 31st. You’re just living in the

Re: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-03-31 Thread Thiago Macieira
I want to point this out: On quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2016 22:48:35 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote: > On sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2016 05:16:33 PDT Tvete Paul wrote: It's still March 31st. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Ce

Re: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-03-31 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2016 05:16:33 PDT Tvete Paul wrote: > The requirement for > Windows 10 should not be a problem, since the upgrade is free anyway. Oh, yes, it is. The problem is not the cost. The problem is the permission to use it. Many companies' IT departments are slow to validate

Re: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-03-31 Thread Andrew Knight
I totally applaud the initiative. Should we go a step further, and make Windows 10 a requirement for building Qt for any platform? The OS ships on most new PCs, and cross-compilers and sysroots for other platform targets are pretty much ubiquitous nowadays. I realize there may be a slight transitio

[Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-03-31 Thread Tvete Paul
As you may know, Lars is leading an effort to modularize the build system. One of the big headaches we have is that Windows uses a completely separate configure.exe, leading to a lot of duplicated effort. With the latest announcement from Microsoft, everything changes. Now that bash is natively s