Deprecate qmlplugindump

You should use qmltyperegistrar these days.

[ChangeLog][QML][Important Behavior Changes] qmlplugindump is
deprecated. Instead of using qmlplugindump to generate qmltypes files by
loading and analyzing the pre-built plugins, you should declare your QML
types using QML_ELEMENT and friends. Then you can automatically generate
the qmltypes files at compile time using qmltyperegistrar.

Fixes: QTBUG-91089
Change-Id: Iebd1b71a8e36c311d1590cb10128f9fc6d5e318c
Reviewed-by: Fabian Kosmale <fabian.kosmale@qt.io>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/qmlplugindump/main.cpp b/tools/qmlplugindump/main.cpp
index c3a08d72ab..e5da5c59aa 100644
--- a/tools/qmlplugindump/main.cpp
+++ b/tools/qmlplugindump/main.cpp
@@ -1157,6 +1157,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
             }
         }
 
+        std::cerr << "qmlplugindump is deprecated.\n"
+                  << "Please declare your types using QML_ELEMENT and related macros.\n"
+                  << "Then utilize the build system to invoke qmltyperegistrar in order to\n"
+                  << "generate qmltypes files.\n";
+
         if (action == Uri) {
             if (positionalArgs.size() != 3 && positionalArgs.size() != 4) {
                 std::cerr << "Incorrect number of positional arguments" << std::endl;
@@ -1350,6 +1355,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
               "//\n"
               "// This file was auto-generated by:\n"
               "// '%1 %2'\n"
+              "//\n"
+              "// qmlplugindump is deprecated! You should use qmltyperegistrar instead.\n"
               "\n").arg(QFileInfo(args.at(0)).baseName(), args.mid(1).join(QLatin1Char(' '))));
     qml.writeStartObject("Module");