Re: [Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

On Friday, 5 January 2024 12:28:04 -03 Christian Tismer-Sperling wrote: > If the PySide group allows it, I'd be happy to port some perl > scripts to python 😉 Sorry, why is Python better than Perl? Eddy's argument is that he doesn't want to maintain Perl, but if others are, he doesn't have to. Th

Re: [Development] Monthly CI maintenance break - January (Tue, Jan 2nd 2024)

Good news, half of the Intel Macs hosts are online. Let’s see over the weekend how they perform if the maintenance break can be called done. From: Development on behalf of Jukka Jokiniva via Development Date: Thursday, 4. January 2024 at 17.11 To: Qt development mailing list Subject: Re: [Dev

Re: [Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

On Friday, 5 January 2024 12:28:04 -03 Christian Tismer-Sperling wrote: > > If someone wants to take over and write in CMake or in C++, be my guest. > > That's what Alexey did for the syncqt.pl script that predated even me. As > > far as I know, that removed the dependency on Perl to compile Qt or

Re: [Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

On 05.01.24 12:15, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Friday, 5 January 2024 06:00:12 -03 Elias Steurer via Development wrote: but let's go back to the discussion about why we need perl in the first place and why wikis are bad 😁 Because we need a more powerful scripting language than shell or batch fil

Re: [Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

On Friday, 5 January 2024 06:00:12 -03 Elias Steurer via Development wrote: > but let's go back to the discussion about why we need perl in the first > place and why wikis are bad 😁 Because we need a more powerful scripting language than shell or batch files for many things. Many of the scripts i

Re: [Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

Volker Hilsheimer (8 December 2023 23:55) wrote (inter alia): Would it make a huge difference if we didn’t require perl (and IIRC we only need it for the init-repository script)? On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 11:35:45AM +, Edward Welbourne via Development wrote: >> Our post-commit hook al

Re: [Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

Hi Konrad, That would be indeed easier. The wiki explicitly states to use : >/A Perl version which does not need a registration and also provides a zip file instead an installer is StrawberryPerl . / but let's go back

Re: [Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

Hi, On 05/01/2024 08:21, Elias Steurer via Development wrote: > git for windows comes with perl Is this new? Because my installation does not have it. I just checked, and the folder my env path points to only contains git.exe, git-gui.exe, and no Perl. This is not new - it has (to my know

Re: [Development] HEADS-UP: Qt 6.7 API change review

Hi, In the hope of spreading knowledge, I've created a staging area in the wiki called "Things to look out for in reviews." This is a low-entry-barrier way to quickly publish a guideline. After each release, we should discuss where to move these "things" to, see the page for details: https://