[QBS] v2 of Proposal: improvements to the config system

[joerg.bornemann at nokia.com]

The number of Qt properties needed for a valid Qt version setup ranges between one and seven at the moment. In the worst case you'll have to set binPath, incPath, libPath, mkspecsPath, version, qtNamespace and qtLibInfix. Potentially this will get more, like the defines (that are written to qconfig.pri) and a property that specifies if its a static Qt etc...
Like the platform properties, this is something you don't want to replicate in every profile but just reference the Qt version by name.

For every config key in a profile we must answer the question "is it a property value or a reference to another  config value". Maybe like this
    profiles.foo.qt: "myqt"
does not have subkeys - thus we pull in qt.myqt.*
And
   profiles.foo.bar.someprop: "narf"
has subkeys below profiles.foo.bar. Then bar must be a module with the property someprop which we set to "narf".


BR,

Jörg
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From: qbs-bounces+joerg.bornemann=nokia.com at qt-project.org [qbs-bounces+joerg.bornemann=nokia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of ext André Pönitz [andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de]
Sent: 28 March 2012 23:44
To: Tom Sutcliffe
Cc: qbs at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [QBS] v2 of Proposal: improvements to the config system

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:20:40PM +0000, Tom Sutcliffe wrote:
> The way we'd represent this in the QSettings keyspace would be
> something like this. I've modelled this on my setup where for a given
> qt version I need to set the architecture and platform at the same
> time - with this proposal these can be setup in exactly the same way.
>
> profiles.myDefaultSetup.qt.core.path: "D:\QtSDK-1.1\Desktop\Qt\4.7.2\mingw"
> profiles.myDefaultSetup.qbs.platform: "mingw32"
> profiles.myDefaultSetup.qbs.architecture: "x86"
>
> profiles.x64.qt.core.path: "D:\QtSDK-1.1\QtSources\4.7.2-msvc2010-x64"
> profiles.x64.qbs.platform: "msvc2010"
> profiles.x64.qbs.architecture: "x86_64"
> profiles.x64.qbs.buildVariant: "release"

> Which profile(s) are used is determined by the top-level "profile"
> key. Thus you could run "qbs build release profile:x64" (or just "qbs
> profile:x64") then all the keys under profiles.x64 would be set (ie
> qbs.platform would be set to "msvc2010" etc), or you could set the
> default value for this (and thus the default profile to be used) by
> calling "qbs config --global profile myDefaultSetup".

Sorry for being late in the game (and for not knowing qbs, getting
terminology wrong, ...)

I think it might be beneficial to have one more indirection below the
"profiles" level, depending on you many properties hide behind e.g. the
'qt.' "component"

If there will be "a lot qt. properties" like

 profiles.x64.qt.core.path: "D:\QtSDK-1.1\QtSources\4.7.2-msvc2010-x64"
 profiles.x64.qt.foo1: ...
 [...]
 profiles.x64.qt.foo63: ...
 profiles.x64.qbs.platform: "msvc2010"
 profiles.x64.qbs.architecture: "x86_64"
 profiles.x64.qbs.buildVariant: "release"

 profiles.x64a.qt.core.path: "D:\QtSDK-1.1\QtSources\4.7.2-msvc2010-x64"
 profiles.x64a.qt.foo1: ...
 [...]
 profiles.x64a.qt.foo63: ...
 profiles.x64a.qbs.platform: "msvc2010"
 profiles.x64a.qbs.architecture: "x86_64"
 profiles.x64a.qbs.buildVariant: "release-ish"

this could be

 qt.somename64.core.path: "D:\QtSDK-1.1\QtSources\4.7.2-msvc2010-x64"
 qt.somename64.foo1: ...
 [...]
 qt.somename64.foo63: ...

 profiles.x64.qt: "somename64"   # "links" to all qt.somename64.*
 profiles.x64.qbs.architecture: "x86_64"
 profiles.x64.qbs.buildVariant: "release"

 profiles.x64a.qt: "somename64"
 profiles.x64a.qbs.architecture: "x86_64"
 profiles.x64a.qbs.buildVariant: "release-ish"

It's essentially the same data, but treats profiles as a "bag of
highlevel components" instead of a "bag of all the properties of
highlevel components", and would incidentally pretty much match
what (hopefully, work is on-going...) will be the internal layout
of qt versions, toolchains, etc for Qt Creator 2.6

I pretty much agree with everything else.

Andre'


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