[Qt-creator] Cross-debugging Win-Linux // project-session issue

[andy fillebrown]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Patrick Masotta <masottaus at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Sun, 3/6/11, andy fillebrown <andy.fillebrown at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: andy fillebrown <andy.fillebrown at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Cross-debugging Win-Linux // project-session issue
>> To: qt-creator at qt.nokia.com
>> Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011, 8:36 PM
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM,
>> Andre Poenitz
>> <andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:04:07AM -0500, andy
>> fillebrown wrote:
>> >> I tend to agree with Patrick.  I rarely launch
>> and app to open a file
>> >> from inside it (unless I absolutely have to).  I
>> prefer double
>> >> clicking a file in the file explorer.  When I do
>> this with VS, no
>> >> problem -- session info loads.  With QtCreator,
>> session info does not
>> >> load.  It would be nice if it did.
>> >
>> > The problem is to find out which session is meant.
>> Maybe just creating
>> > a list of matches and let the user select (and
>> auto-open if there's
>> > only a single one) would already work.
>>
>> That would be an improvement, but I'd rather have the
>> option to put a
>> session file wherever I want.  I realize this would
>> make it possible
>> to accidentally put it under revision control, but is that
>> really an
>> issue worth trying to solve?
>>
>> Another possibility would be to formalize the setup a top
>> level
>> session directory.  Something like:
>>
>> + session/
>>    + shadow-builds/
>>    + source/
>>    + session-file-1
>>    + session-file-2
>>
>> That would make more sense to me than the current way
>> QtCreator
>> handles sessions and default shadow build directories.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> ~ andy.f
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> why is it necessary such complication, how many sessions you guys have per project?? I always have just one; "the last one".... I can imagine myself remembering what sessionA or sessionB was for if I have to deal with many ones per project....
> I'm reading Andre  """Maybe just creating a list of matches and let the user select (and auto-open if there's only a single one) """ and I cannot give credit to my eyes....
> This is a problem "already solved" by VS & Eclipse; don't you guys think we should embrace the already proven approach and put our creativity somewhere else...


Well, like I said earlier, it's not that big a deal, imo.  I don't
even use sessions.

Cheers,
~ andy.f