[Qt-creator] CMake builds vs qmake builds

[André Pönitz]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 04:24:11PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> [...] BTW:
> Why does QtCreator refuse to make build directories under the source tree?  It
> pollutes my home dir... and in QMake it is supported (I am doing this for ages,
> even under QtCreator).

Because qmake traditionally does not like it in some corner cases.
I am not even sure how the situation looks like nowadays precisely,
but at a time it seemed easier to require builds on a "sibling level".

Andre'