[Qt-creator] Updated .user-file saving mechanismn

[Stephen Chu]

In article <4B695943.7060604 at nokia.com>,
 Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at nokia.com> wrote:

> On 02.02.2010 17:37, ext Stephen Chu wrote:
> >> Platform as in different OS environments/computers? Are you using a
> >> network share with different OSes?
> >
> > I am working on a project that's shared between Mac and Windows. The
> > project folder is in a networked share.
> 
> Hi Stephen!
> 
> I do not want to introduce some option into the GUI for what seems (to 
> me:-) to be a rarely encountered use-case. So I thought about other 
> options to ease your live: How about introducing a environment variable 
> (let's call it QTCREATOR_EXTENSION) to override the .user file extension?
> 
> When looking for a .user file to open Qt Creator would prefer 
> project.${QTCREATOR_EXTENSION} over project.user (using the latter as a 
> fallback). When writing it will create project.${QTCREATOR_EXTENSION}.
> 
> If you can set e.g. the Mac to override this environment variable to 
> ".user_mac" and the windows system to use ".user_win", then (together 
> with the shadow build option) your need to copy .user-files around and 
> delete transient files should be gone.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Tobias

That's a great way to do it. Thanks a lot. Now if I can figure out why I 
am getting tons of errors with shadow build on Windows...

-- 
Stephen Chu