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Latest revision as of 09:04, 10 October 2017

  • Meson
    • Did anyone use it?
    • Tobias: Tried it out, "kind of works"
  • Build System of Qt
    • Keeping QMake alive
    • Converting #ifdef'ed to new module system
    • Test for configure can now be done in the .json file
    • Configure system will also be used in qbs
  • Qbs
    • Is it still using QtScript?
      • Still using QtScript as backend
      • Bootstrapping will use it, too
    • Moving Qbs itself away from Qt -> stl
    • Shall we use full JavaScriptCore?
      • Lars: Rather use v4 directly, let's not have two engines
    • Looked at Ducktape as alternative, but was buggy
    • Thiago volunteered to help communicating
      • Jerry-Script is an another alternative
    • What about Linux distributions?
      • We don't have to support old compiler versions
      • Don't we? People still use older versions
      • Can we requirement VS 2017 for Qbs?
        • probably not any time soon
        • we at minimum have to keep QtC's compilers working
    • How to distribute?
      • Ossi: Two different sources, one boot-strappable, another one just qbs
  • Can we make moc and rcc independent from Qt?
    • Why is this needed?
    • With qmake gone in the future, there's only moc/rcc to be bootstrapped
      • Can we use the tools that are on the host for cross-compilation?
      • Cross-compilation should allow using host tools from other Qt
  • QBS/qtbase prototype
    • Ongoing work to clean up issues with the first prototype last year
  • Making Qt installation relocatable?
    • More robust path handling?
    • Policy questions related to deployment
    • Let's do another session on this