[Qt-creator] Why Creator's Qbs plugin need to special process for Qt?

[eike.ziller at nokia.com]

> ________________________________________
> From: qt-creator-bounces+eike.ziller=nokia.com at qt-project.org [qt-creator-bounces+eike.ziller=nokia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of ext Theo de Vries [t.j.a.devries at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:37
> To: Konstantin Tokarev
> Cc: qbs at qt-project.org; qt-creator at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Why Creator's Qbs plugin need to special process      for Qt?
> 
> 2012/8/29 Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>:
> >
> > 29.08.2012, 07:55, "Loaden" <loaden at gmail.com>:
> >> See:
> >> void QbsProject::createBuildProject(const QString &buildProjectName, QtSupport::BaseQtVersion *qtVersion)
> >> {
> >>     if (qtVersion) {
> >>         if (qtVersion->defaultBuildConfig() == QtSupport::BaseQtVersion::DebugBuild || qtVersion->defaultBuildConfig() == QtSupport::BaseQtVersion::BuildAll) {
> >>             buildConfiguration["qbs.buildVariant"] = "debug";
> >>         } else {
> >>             buildConfiguration["qbs.buildVariant"] = "release";
> >>         }
> >>         buildConfiguration["qt/core.qtPath"] = qtVersion->sourcePath().toString();
> >>
> >>     } else {
> >>         buildConfiguration["qbs.buildVariant"] = "debug";
> >>     }
> >>
> >> I don't like the design.
> >> I thought QbsProjectManager should like CMakeProjectManager.
> >> No need Qt depends!
> >
> > Actually, missing Qt dependence is a big gap in CMakeProjectManager which needs to be fixed.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Konstantin
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> 
> Konstantin, would you mind explaining your point of view? I can see
> that Qt dependence is an advantage when building a Qt project, but
> when doing a non-Qt development, I agree with Loaden that it is a pain
> to have a dependency on qtVersion etc as in the current design of qbs.

The plugin + code should have a dependency on Qt support, to give the user best support for it.
But that doesn't mean that the code should depend on a Qt version being even configured.
I.e. projects that don't use Qt shouldn't need Qt configured,
projects that use Qt should get best support for it.

--
Eike Ziller
Principal Software Engineer

Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks

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