[Qbs] Qbs Automatic Projects

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 01:51:15PM +0200, Joerg Bornemann wrote:
> On 26/06/2017 10:44, resurrection at centrum.cz wrote:
> > I tried Qbs and immediately recognised it had even bigger 
> > potential for automating project definitions except... it discourages 
> > doing that (see for example this 
> > <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QBS-1119> and quite a few other 
> > instances where such approach is discouraged). I honestly do not 
> > understand why. What does it bring me to type out the same thing over 
> > and over again? You would not do it in your code. You would make a 
> > method or class or at least a loop. Yet for some reason I am supposed to 
> > do that with project files...
> 
> Be assured that nobody want to discourage you from doing anything.
>
actually, i do. i don't even like wildcards; see my arguments in
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QBS-58 .

i'd approach the problem by adding lots of parameterization to
qbs-create-project (to the point where one could call the response file
a meta-project format).