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Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?


From: Christian Gagneraud
Subject: Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 13:23:00 +1300

On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 03:27, Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Qbs is from the QT world, and seems to need javascript (which isn't as
> bad as C++, probably).  It seems that QT itself is no longer using it.
> The wikipedia list of "notable projects" using it is very short.
> Perhaps not fair, but I had never heard of it.

Qbs is maintained by its community, of which are some of the original Qt devs.
I agree that it is not as popular as other build systems.
I'm not sure that you should choose your build system solely based on
popularity tho.

> There's also the issue
> that QT is a world that is either just barely or not quite really Free
> Software; I've recently heard that some usages will require non-free
> licenses, and of course there was the issue long ago with not-quite-free

That is just FUD!

Qt was licenced GPL+Commercial on day 1 (or 2), it then moved to
GPL+LGPL (thanks Nokia) and is now GPL+LGPL+Commercial.
That is typical of OSS supported by a commercial company.
If Qt was to move to a non-OSS license, it would be forked by the
community, this has been said clearly a few times.
Then Qt is controlled by "The Qt Project", among members are KDE and
"The Qt Company" (and others).

So this is plainly FUD.

> licenses.  Qbs is not in pkgsrc, which is a not-100%-reliable clue that
> it is not important in the large Free Software ecosystem.  So I really
> don't see how this can be seriously considered.

I don't think this is a big issue, I'm sure this could be solved quite easily.
pkgsrc provides Qt5, so adding Qbs shouldn't be a big task.

Chris



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