[Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

2016-03-31 Thread Tvete Paul
As you may know, Lars is leading an effort to modularize the build system. One of the big headaches we have is that Windows uses a completely separate configure.exe, leading to a lot of duplicated effort. With the latest announcement from Microsoft, everything changes. Now that bash is natively s

[Development] Urgent gerrit change for 5.1: closing the Qt Quick feature gap on the desktop

2013-04-01 Thread Tvete Paul
I have spoken to Lars, and we have identified a significant feature missing from Qt Quick. Lars agrees that this needs to be handled immediately. Unfortunately, Easter vacation in Norway has made it difficult to communicate this earlier. We realize that there is a feature freeze, but it has been