[Qt-creator] pro file parsing in cumulative mode really necessary?

[Daniel Teske]

Hi,
>
> I didn't find any negative side effects, so I ask myself whether
> cumulative mode here is really beneficial for anything at all?
>   
Yes it is. In cumulative mode the following is parsed as if both if 
branches are taken, regardless of platform.

win32 {
   SOURCES += process_win.cpp
}
unix {
   SOURCRS += process_unix.cpp
}

The cumulative mode is based on the linguist parsing of .pro files which 
tries to find all the releveant source files regardless of scoping.

In master and thus in the 2.0  final and the not yet released beta we 
parse the .pro files twice (completly oversimplified) and thus should 
handle your case correctly.
I'd aprreciate  if you could report after the beta if that is indeed the 
case.

> Another side-note: qmake seems to accept the following (admittedly
> strange) call
>
> OUTPUT=$$replace(INPUT,string,)
>
> and interprets it as to replace "string" by "" in $$INPUT. However, the
> implementation in profileevaluator.cpp sets OUTPUT to the empty string
> instead.
>   
I'll let our qmake expert comment on that.
And please report any discrepancies between our parser and qmake's one, 
those are interesting for us.