[Qt-creator] Target refactoring

[Peter Kümmel]

On 23.04.2012 16:54, tobias.hunger at nokia.com wrote:
> Jörg wrote:
>> It is potentially a valid use case to have different "tool chains"
>> (resp. makefile generators) that use ninja as build tool.
>
> Yes, but a tool chain inside Creator is a compiler/linker and does not
> create makefiles:-)
>
>> In that case it would be good if we were reusing the ninja support and
>> not hacking it into the cmake plugin.
>
> Yes, the ninja support should be as stand alone as possible, I fully agree.
> My point is that if the cmake plugin is going to build with ninja, then the
> cmake plugin needs to know about the ninja support we have somehow
> and set up the necessary build steps and configure cmake to produce the
> ninja Makefiles (whatever they are called).

OK, maybe I find the time to squeeze all into the cmake plugin.

>
> Whether the cmake plugin does so because includes the ninja code or
> because it depends on a "ninja-plugin" does not really matter for now
> I think.
>
>> But as long as there isn't any other plugin that needs to use ninja the
>> "reusing effort" can be delayed IMO.
>
> Yeap.
>
> Best Regards,
> Tobias
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