> Yes and this is relevant if it is relevant for the maintainers of Qbs. Do we have a statement from them so far ?
We have a confirmation from Lars that QtCreator is dropping qbs support in a year. That basically reads "qbs dead as there will be no IDE supporting it left". On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:21 PM Uwe Rathmann <uwe.rathm...@tigertal.de> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:59:28 +0100, Olivier Goffart wrote: > > > What Lars said, if I read the email properly, is that the Qt Company > > does not see a business value in developing it further. > > Yes and this is relevant if it is relevant for the maintainers of Qbs. Do > we have a statement from them so far ? > > > But the project is open source and the code is there and anyone is free > > to take over if they are interested in it. > > In case a maintainer decides to step down the normal process would be to > find a new one. Only if this is not possible further steps have to be > taken. > > Using Qbs for building Qt has been discussed here and lead to a solid > decision against it. Obviously then the Qt company decided not to work on > this code anymore - so far so good. > > But deprecating Qbs as a tool for building user projects is absolutely > not covered by this discussion and if there was a more related one I seem > to have missed it. > > This all has a lot to do with the question if the Qt Company sees itself > as being a member or the owner of the Qt project. If we really want to be > a community project, then the process of inventing and deprecating > modules has to become more independent. > > Uwe > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development >
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