[Qt-creator] Buid and Run settings should allow to set path relative to the .pro file

[Coda Highland]

Never put .pro.user files in the repository. They're not intended to
be shared. Any project settings that need to be shared need to be put
into the .pro file.

/s/ Adam

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:21 AM, anshul mehta <ansmehta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using custom make commands to build my project. I delete the default
> build steps and specify the my own build steps to be executed when project
> is build in Qt Creator.
> I specify a build directory in which make commands are to be executed and
> specify the path of executable that is to be run.
> The build directory path and executable path are stored in
> untitled.pro.user.
>
> Now my problem is that multiple users share this untitled.pro.user file
> since it is checked in CVS along with untitled.pro. But the path stored in
> untitled.pro.user are absolute paths and thus don't work for the other
> users.
>
> I need a feature so that I can specify the build directory path and
> executable path relative to the path of untitled.pro that any user opens in
> Qt Creator i.e. when we open a .pro in Qt Creator then an environmental
> variable gets created $PROJECT_PATH which points to path of .pro file of the
> project. Then I can specify build directory in untitled.pro.user like
> $PROJECT_PATH/../bld and the executable path like
> $PROJECT_PATH/../inst/untitled. In this I will be able to share same
> untitled.pro.user among multiple users since the $PROJECT_PATH will be setup
> for each user differently when he opens project in Qt Creator.
>
> Alternatively to above feature we can be implement a feature that when
> untitled.pro is opened then we can specify the custom path of
> untitled.pro.user to be loaded and it should not look for untitled.pro.user
> in the current directory. In this way users can keep their own independent
> untitled.pro.user and need not check it in CVS
>
> I hope I'm making my point clear !
>
> Thanks
> Anshul
>
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