[Qt-creator] Build progress bar usefulness

[Coda Highland]

Qt itself takes over 3 minutes on that same machine, though.

There may be a simpler way to guess at it, at least as a heuristic...

/s/ Adam

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Carter, Nathan <NCARTER at bentley.edu> wrote:
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>>>> So running 'make -n' before each "proper" 'make', i.e. spending 50 more
>>>> seconds when building e.g. Creator, is needed after all?
>>>
>>> No, we don't actually know whether it takes 50 seconds without the -B switch.  Does it?
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>> It will if you've just done a fresh checkout, a make clean, or used
>> the "rebuild" command.
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> Frankly, if a huge project like Creator takes only 50 seconds on an old machine to do make -B -n, then I'd say for most projects (smaller than Creator) on most machines (newer than André said his is) in most circumstances (not full rebuilds), the time will be worth it.  Of course, you can always make the feature user-toggleable.  I, for one, would like to see it, as would the OP.
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