[Qt-creator] Qt Creator Sharing Project Configurations

[Andy]

If anyone is taking this on, it would be nice to have support for
EditorConfig files.

  http://editorconfig.org/

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Tobias Hunger <Tobias.Hunger at qt.io> wrote:

> On Di, 2016-09-27 at 21:04 -0700, Sanchez, Jack wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been looking into sharing specific build and run configurations
> with
> > my team agnostic of the kit. I have found the documentation which
> suggests
> > this is possible, but also seems to hint that this is for sharing across
> > personal projects rather than in a team environment. There are also many
> > stackoverflow, et. al., posts which ask the same question with no
> response
> > other than a pointer to the same Qt documentation I've already read.
>
> That is not going to work, sorry.
>
> All the build and run settings stored in the .user files. They are grouped
> below
> a Target, which is referencing a kit by its id. When creator loads a .user
> file
> it will skip all the targets (and all the settings below the target) that
> come
> with unknown kit ids.
>
> So if you want to share .user files, then you have to make sure all users
> have
> the same kits with the same kit ids. The only way to actually pick kit ids
> is
> via the SDK tool -- a rather ugly program that the Qt installer uses to
> register
> Qt versions, etc. All kits created via the UI get random ids, so those are
> out.
>
> So if you limit yourself to the kits installed by the Qt installer you
> might be
> lucky -- provided your users happen to have exactly the same Qt versions
> installed as you do and are on the same platform.
>
> If you administer a locked-down environment where your developers have to
> work
> with the kits you pre-installed for them, then you do control the kits
> they work
> with. You got a fair chance to share settings in such an environment.
>
> > This is a fairly common need and it seems unlikely to me that Qt Creator
> > does not support this.
>
> Yes, this has been requested and talked about many times before.
> Unfortunately
> there still is no good solution for the problem:-/ Sorry.
>
> My idea -- when I get round to working on this front again -- is to enable
> project-specific wizards. Basically you could have e.g. a .qtc-wizards
> directory
> in your project, checked in with the rest of your sources. Creator would
> then
> check in that directory whenever it needs to offer wizards to its users.
> That
> would enable cool things like have project-specific templates for all
> kinds of
> files, etc.
>
> If you open a project for the first time, then Creator could look for a
> wizard
> in .qtc-wizards/projectsetup and run that wizard if found. That wizard
> would
> then be able to display a UI, asking your users for all kind of things
> (e.g.
> install location of dependencies), doing other things (like check out
> subprojects from a repository somewhere) and it could configure your
> project
> with custom build steps and whatnot. Of course a wizard does not need to
> show a
> UI and can just do his work in silence and without user interaction.
>
> The introduction of the JSON wizards got us within reach of that idea, but
> unfortunately I am not going to get round to that anytime soon:-/
>
> Patches are welcome! Feel free to contact me if you are interested in this
> topic:-)
>
> > Is there a way to build a kit which generates a common GUID and/or
> > assigning the GUID to a user's kit (git-hooks and scripts?) in order to
> > trick the system into reading these shared settings?
>
> The only way to force GUIDs for the kits is the sdktool.
>
> > Any help is appreciated!
>
> Best Regards,
> Tobias
>
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