[Qt-creator] Building with virtual frame buffer

[eike.ziller at nokia.com]

On 3 Apr 2012, at 13:02, ext Atlant Schmidt wrote:

> 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.

Typing "make AND clean" into the QuickSearch on bugreports.qt.nokia.com turns up e.g.
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-2874

>>  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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Eike Ziller
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