[Qt-creator] Building with virtual frame buffer

[Atlant Schmidt]

Andre':

  If such targets don't work and there's no plan
  to make them work, then they should be deprecated
  and then discontinued. Otherwise, they should be
  fixed just as any other broken part of the software
  should be fixed.

                        Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: apoe at hrz.tu-chemnitz.de [mailto:apoe at hrz.tu-chemnitz.de] On Behalf Of André Pönitz
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 06:59
To: Atlant Schmidt
Cc: 'eike.ziller at nokia.com'; duane.hebert at group-upc.com; qt-creator at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Building with virtual frame buffer

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 06:48:30AM -0400, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> Eike:
>
> > In general I wouldn't trust the 'confclean' target that Qt generates,
> > it doesn't quite remove everything also for applications built with
> > Qt/qmake. ...
>
>   Is there a bug filed against this? That sounds like one of those
>   "broken windows" things that lets the neighborhood degrade.
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

Folk lore has it that 'make clean' is always fragile and in most
cases insufficient, and often does not match user expectation, even
in the rare cases where in matches the developer's expectations
-- independent of the project.

Since the invention of shadow builds and 'forcefully cleaned source
trees' (a.k.a. git clean -dxf) the need for such make targets has
been greatly lowered. The user has all the control needed.

Andre'


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