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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:57:25AM +0200, ext Tilman Vogel wrote:
> Ok, maybe the approach looking at all the branches is just too much.
> Why not define a set of configurations (maybe based on qmake.conf
> files the user may pick) and just parse the pro file for every
> configuration once in non-cumulative mode and then concat all the
> results?
>
that's an interesting idea, but a .qmake.cache file (which essentially
feeds variables generated by an external configure tool) is likely to
make that approach unworkable as such. of course one could feed a
specially crafted full configuration to creator, but that diverges from
the zero-conf ideal. i'll think about it.