Hi Tuukka,
On 02.11.2018 13:44, Tuukka Turunen wrote:
Exactly. We are very pleased if there are people who start to
contribute to Qbs. So far it has been very little by others than
employees of The Qt Company.
We will continue maintaining Qbs so that it stays supported until end
of 2019 and also release a new version in April 2019 as promised.
Most likely Qbs remains usable a long time after support ends - even
without anyone from the community working on it.
This is a good opportunity for those interested in further developing
Qbs to step up and start taking it forward. We can help with the
reviews and provide the infrastructure. We can help even with new
releases, if there is enough interest to develop it further.
To be honest, that's not at all what the blog post at
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/10/29/deprecation-of-qbs/ suggests:
> We have decided to deprecate Qbs and redirect our resources to
> increase support for CMake.
The keyword here being "deprecate". You're not saying "The Qt Company is
pulling resources", you're saying "Qbs will go away, don't use it
anymore" ("you" being TQtC). The first one would be fine, the latter one
is a clear signal to stay away from it.
If Qbs is independent from TQtC (what the discussion here suggests),
than TQtC is in no position to _deprecate_ it.
We probably should have opened the dialogue about the future of Qbs
during the process of thinking about the options. This would have
been good and fair towards the community.
I think TQtC has every right to say "we won't be
supporting/funding/developing Qbs anymore" (as it seems to have happened
with Qt Widgets IIRC), but announcing its deprecation is a completely
different beast IMO.
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