[Qt-creator] Linked projects/workspace/'solutions'

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:20:14PM +0100, Robert Caldecott wrote:
> I've been playing with 'subdirs' in Qt Creator this evening and if Qt
> Creator could let you build, run and debug individual projects in the
> 'solution' via the right-click menu, then I think this would go a long way
> towards a workspace style solution that people like myself are used to.
>  You'd also eventually want the ability to add new projects and to change
> the order in which projects are built to save messing with the .pro file
> itself.
> Would this be a lot of work?  Does anyone else think this is worth doing?

The main problem here is that are things possible in a .pro file
that would not be expressible (sensibly) in a Gui.

After dropping the idea of a 'complete' Gui for .pro files the
next step would be thinking about a reasonable subset of qmake
syntax that's expressible within a Gui. But that breaks as soon
as someone uses one of the 'forbidden' features... Etc.

> > I have also experimented with the 'subdirs' TEMPLATE.  Now, this is
> > pretty good but has some problems.  For example, if you open one of
> > these templates, you get a nice project tree but you can't right-click
> > on an individual project and run/build it.  You have the build the
> > entire 'tree' so it would be good for when people want to simply
> > checkout and build a 'solution' but not if they want to work on the
> > components.  Plus dependencies and custom build steps would still be
> > an issue.

There's obviously room for improvement...

Andre'