CMake support has been dropped

[ysard]

CMake support has been dropped unilaterally from repo (history erasing, not history rewriting (sic)); Despite Qt efforts (auto recognition by dh_make for Debian), CMake is the only way to ensure automatic compilation (auto-detection of KArchive instead of manual installation for example) and a quick minimal packaging on all the OS you want to support. Otherwise, CMake does not prevent the normal use of qmake.

Please bring us some explanations about this choice :p bisous <3

[ratijas]

Packaging can be hard. And packaging tools tend to be extremely complicated.

Recently Qt announced plans to drop support for qmake and switch all their projects to CMake. They even provided some means to do it automatically.

So, it might make sense to port all Qt-based projects to CMake build system.

Resources

• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/cmake-get-started.html
• https://wiki.qt.io/CMake_Port
• https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2018-October/034023.html
• https://www.qt.io/blog/2018/10/29/deprecation-of-qbs