Qt-contributors-summit-2014-qbs

Notes of the qbs session

What happened since the last Qt contributor’s summit?

1.1

• nested projects
• robust change tracking
• stable API for IDEs
• documentation was extended a lot

1.2

• rules w/ flexible number of outputs (IDL, flex)
• special moc code removed

Future plans

• full Android support == combining builds/packaging! (1.3)
• implement the missing features for supporting the utterly complex Qt 5 module system
  • source modules (.pri files in qmake)
  • support for external build systems (external project in cmake)
  • configure phase build probes
  • action targets (e.g. make docs)
  • meta-issue QBS-70 collects those and some more

Discussion

• Estimated goal for being able to fully build Qt modules is 5.6.
• Simon suggested to support Linux containers (https://linuxcontainers.org/) for package creation. We agreed that it’s nice to have, but low priority.
• The “problem of bootstrapping” is a non-issue, according to Ossi. It’s just work. :)