> On 30 Oct 2018, at 06:18, 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.
I’d be happy if Qbs development continues, and there is a place for it on qt-project if people want to continue developing it. But this is a bit a different thing from The Qt Company saying that the company will support this for commercial customers, especially given the fact that Qbs never was part of Qt itself. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
