I just want to point something out, something that's not that visible on the blog post that it appeared at.
In this post: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/12/07/qbs-1-10-released/ just a little less than a year ago, qbs was touted as the new Qt build tool. This isn't speculation, these are direct words from TQtC employee. Essentially: TQtC encouraged their customers to migrate, then, less than a year later, they deprecate it on dubious grounds essentially making this earlier post a lie. I have to ask: how is this helping Qt's business strategy? You've essentially wasted hour upon hours of your customers time and ignored it all at the drop of a hat. This is a direct breach of trust that potentially has severe financial consequences. On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:16 PM Jochen Becher <jochen_bec...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > the company I am working for was an early adopter of Qbs. We migrated > over hundred projects and components with several million lines of C++ > source code to it. Several teams are working with Qbs on a daily basis. > We are mostly satisfied with the current release and we will not move > away from this great build system. > > We are really disappointed by TQC deprecating Qbs. How much can we > trust that the same will not happen with QtCreator or some Qt modules > or platform support? > > But we will moderately invest into Qbs' future at least by improving > the integration into QtCreator and keeping Qbs on the level we need. > > Regards, > > Jochen 'gilead' Becher > > Author of QtCreator's ModelEditor plugin > > Head of 30 software developers who are happily use Qbs > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 31.10.2018, 06:51 +0100 schrieb Richard Weickelt: > > Dear all, > > > > on the Qt developer mailing list, Lars Knoll recently announced: > > > > > We have been developing Qbs over the last years, and as such are > > > committed to it for some more time. We are planning on another > > > feature > > > release in the first quarter of next year and will support it in Qt > > > Creator for at least another year. Qbs is open source and if > > > someone > > > wants to take over and develop it further let us know as well. I’d > > > also > > > like to use this place to thank Christian and Jörg for all their > > > great > > > work on Qbs (and of course also anybody else who contributed to > > > it). > > > > Qbs is open source but the largest part of development has always > > been > > shouldered by The Qt Company and the decision processes have never > > been open > > and transparent. > > > > It would be great if the TQtC could clarify what is planned for the > > next > > feature release and why. I would be glad if the TQtC would spend the > > remaining resources on transitioning the Qbs project into a community > > ownership. I have no experience how a successful transition could > > look like. > > Therefore I am asking for role models. > > > > What I can think of, but I might be wrong: TQtC maintainers, please > > communicate upfront what you are going to do, how and why so that > > others can > > learn. Some questions, I think, we should clarify on the mailing > > list: > > > > - Can we define milestones for a successful transition and clarify > > what > > TQtC is willing to invest? > > - There were some companies using Qbs for their own projects [1]. Can > > we get > > committment from those? > > - Can we keep using TQtC infrastructure, domain wtc.? > > - How does the release process of Qbs work? > > - Are there parts in the codebase that make maintenance difficult and > > that could be simplified? Maybe parts duplicating Qt code that > > should > > be rebased onto Vanilla Qt? > > > > Thank You > > Richard Weickelt > > > > > > [1] > > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwXx2F1zuATYY3GGOTkFgDB9jwMPghf6az_RVOnskfk/edit#gid=0 > > _______________________________________________ > > Qbs mailing list > > Qbs@qt-project.org > > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qbs > > _______________________________________________ > Qbs mailing list > Qbs@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qbs >
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