QBS 1.0.0 released

The QBS project has reached a developmental stage where it allows you to build Qt Creator projects without difficulty. Therefore, the project deserves the version number that would reflect its benefits to a large number of external users.

Why use QBS?

• QBS itself takes care of setting up the build environment and allows you to build projects for different platforms from the same environment.
• Allows you to build parallel multiple configurations of the project.
• Fast incremental builds ( comparison ).
• Uses QML-like language. You can write complex scripts directly in JavaScript instead of some obscure languages ​​(yes, I'm talking about you, qmake).
• QBS is supported in Qt Creator 2.8.
• QBS is not bound to the Qt version. This means that changing the Qt version does not pull the version of the build toolkit.

Where to get it?

QBS will be integrated into Qt Creator 2.8.
Instructions for building QBS from source are available on the wiki: http://qt-project.org/wiki/qbs
Any errors should be reported here: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QBS
And questions can be asked on the mailing list: http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qbs

Can QBS build Qt?

This question comes up often. Despite the fact that it is possible to replace the existing build system based on qmake, configure scripts and the infamous synqt still cannot be thrown out. Therefore, there will not be much confusion from QBS. The developers are aiming higher and also want to replace configure with syncqt, and this is where QBS is still underdeveloped. In addition, the assembly on a clean system (bootstrapping) is not yet possible.