[Qt-interest] Ulternative to qmake

[Daniel Price]

> 1) You should fix you installation. If qmake "doesn't work anymore"
> then
> there are _reasons_ to it...
>

Yeah the reasons are: qmake is crap :)

I really like the syntax of .pro/.pri files but qmake is really, really bad at handling dependencies, dependency changes etc. PRE_TARGETDEPS et-al don't always work and/or subtle errors can be really hard to track down.

If I add a library dep to a .pro file, why do I also need to use poorly-documented variables to tell qmake to re-link when those deps change?

I've literally lost hours trying to debug strange crashes only to find that qmake had failed to re-link properly to a changed library. I've NEVER had problems like this in other build systems.

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