[Qbs] Any novice tickets

Richard Weickelt richard at weickelt.de
Mon Aug 6 23:58:50 CEST 2018


>> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QBS-511 (QBS help text is not properly
>> format in windows cmd shell) I guess, QBS doesn't use QCommandLineParser at
>> the moment?
> 
> No, and I don't think it can, because of the "command plus additional arguments" syntax that qbs uses.

This would be a very useful add-on in QCommandLineParser. Is the following
work-around too hackish?
1. Parse the second argument in argv (or QCoreApplication::arguments())
manually in order to deduce the command before initializing an appropriate
QCommandLineParser object.
2. Then remove the second argument and pass the resulting list (without the
command) to QCommandLineParser.

1. qbs build --options
2. qbs --option ...



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