[Qbs] Fwd: qbs run --dry-run not working ?

[Christian Kandeler]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:41:04 +0100
Damien Courtois <damien.courtois at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: Damien Courtois <damien.courtois at gmail.com>
> Date: 2017-12-15 11:39 GMT+01:00
> Subject: Re: [Qbs] qbs run --dry-run not working ?
> To: Christian Kandeler <christian.kandeler at qt.io>
> Cc: "qbs at qt-project.org\" <qbs at qt-project.org>"@qt-project.org
> 
> 
> The IDE is VSCode. And since extensions are typescript modules, I can only
> use the Qbs command line tool.
> 
> I understand that the command line tool was not designed for being used
> like this, but I think that if it provided a command to query informations
> about a project, it would really ease integration into a lot of tools. Take
> the example of CMake: it's integrated in Qt Creator, and now even in Visual
> Studio 2017. This integration was possible by parsing the output of CMake,
> and since the server mode, it became even easier (well, at least now it's
> standardized. I still don't understand why they had to create the whole
> server mode / handshake / whatever mess instead of just outputting things
> directly, but anyways :p)
> 
> Is this something you would consider ? And if this is not your priority
> (which I would totally understand) are you accepting contributions ?

Have you seen Jake's reply about project generators? It may well be that qbs producing native project files is the better alternative here. I'm not too knowledgeable about either our generator stuff or about VSCode, so I suggest you discuss your requirements with him. 
If it turns out that that's not the right approach, we can come back to the command line tool.


Christian