[Qt-creator] Target refactoring

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Mon Apr 23 14:40:55 CEST 2012



23.04.2012, 16:36, "Joerg Bornemann" <joerg.bornemann at nokia.com>:
> On 23/04/2012 13:15, ext Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>
>>>>    I wanted to add support for ninja, the 'make' replacement.
>>>>    CMake now can generate ninja build files.
>>>  Ninja support for now is a cmake feature for now, isen't it?
>>  Right now yes, but it may change in future. Also, it would be beneficial
>>  for qmake to have Ninja backend at least to speed up build of Qt itself.
>
> It is potentially a valid use case to have different "tool chains"
> (resp. makefile generators) that use ninja as build tool.
> In that case it would be good if we were reusing the ninja support and
> not hacking it into the cmake plugin.
> But as long as there isn't any other plugin that needs to use ninja the
> "reusing effort" can be delayed IMO.

Agreed, but coupling of toolchain and make just doesn't feel right for me.

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin



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