On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:47:08 +0100 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
> Christian Gagneraud wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 12:27, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> (so, unlike QBS, it does not depend on Qt, which would mean a circular > >> dependency when building Qt), > > > > qmake has this problem, yet it's been packaged for 10+ years without a > > problem. > > Bootstrapping QMake has always been the least pleasant part of the Qt build > process. It requires building parts of Qt (QMake and the classes it depends > on) with a custom script, making it harder than necessary to get it to use > the proper build flags (optimization, security hardening, etc.). The script > is also a completely unnecessary maintenance burden for Qt. > > I am looking forward to this bootstrapping hack going away by just using > CMake. > > And it would be much worse for QBS, which requires much more from Qt than > QMake. It requires QML, JavaScript, etc. It does not require QML. Christian _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
