[Qt-creator] Kit-Device relation

[Orgad Shaneh]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at digia.com>wrote:

> Hi Orgad!
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying, I was busy with DevDays (great event by
> the way;).
>
>
> On 12.11.2012 10:17, Orgad Shaneh wrote:
>
>> IMHO kits should only have device type. The device should be taken out
>> of kit configuration, and be re-added in run configuration and in
>> debugger dialogs (filtering devices by the kit's device type).
>>
>
> I see several use-cases here:
>
> * Completely different devices (e.g. a android device and a Nokia N9):
>
>   I think kits work well for this (as did the targets we had before).
>
> * Similar devices with different settings (e.g. generic Linux
>   device running ubuntu/x86 and one running ubuntu/arm)
>
>   I think kits handle that well, too.
>
> * Similar devices with different characteristics (e.g. some OS running
>   on a phone and a tablet, maybe even two identical pieces of hardware
>   running different versions of the firmware)
>
>   I think having different kits for each of these makes sense here since
>   it makes it very easy to switch between phone and tablet.
>
>   You can avoid some rebuilding by having the build  configurations of
>   the different kits share the build directory, which admittedly
>   requires a bit of configuration to be done once.
>
> * Identical devices (e.g. two phones of same model/firmware,
>   a pool of test servers)
>
>   There you can use one kit and switch the device used in its
>   configuration. I agree that we should provide a fast way to do this.
>   Currently this is a bit unwieldy.
>
> There are still some rough spots in the kits, I readily admit that. We
> will continue to polish it, but I am so far rather happy with how it turned
> out so far.
>
> Do you see additional use cases that I missed?
>
> Best Regards,
> Tobias
>
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Thanks for your reply.

I agree. As a conclusion, the actual relation between kit and device is
many-to-many. That's why they should be disjoint. Device Type should stay
in Kit, but Device should be separated.

For similar devices with different build configuration (which IMHO is less
common than identical devices), kit can be cloned, so the user has 2 kits
with identical settings (he'll have to do it anyway with current
implementation, only the device is replaced).

I also join Francois's request for custom IP address for debugging. Adding
a device for every single debugging session can be tiresome.

- Orgad
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