[Qbs] How to reload a parent project after inserting a sub-project

[Christian Kandeler]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 18:08:25 +1200
Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm back on https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qbs/qbs/+/260217, i
> decided that I should get that done and tested before I move on
> QtCreator integration.
> Conceptually, it works, i added a test that check that a sub-project
> is correctly inserted, but for now, i need to re-setup the top project
> using SetupProjectJob (in tst_api.cpp).

I would not bother with any of that. Just update the files. Any halfway decent IDE will have a watch on the qbs files and re-resolve the project. I'm not ruling out that manually manipulating the build graph (as we do for file updates) is possible, but it seems quite  ambitious.


Christian