[Qt-interest] Qt Visual Studio plugin doesn't honor paths on import

Joerg Bornemann joerg.bornemann at nokia.com
Tue Oct 11 09:53:29 CEST 2011


On 11/10/11 08:56, ext Schimkowitsch Robert wrote:

>> "The actual question is: why would they care where generated files are placed?"
>
> Because (as per default settings) they clutter up folders that should only contain source files. That can be changed, but every user has to manually change the settings. They might have to change the settings for different projects with different folder structures.

Generating files in a subfolder named "Generated Files" isn't really 
cluttering the source directory. Also, you just can use out-of-source 
builds.

> Because when I switch between command line and IDE build, I would use different paths, which means a lot of duplicate files, and a lot of wasted compile time.

Then don't switch between devenv and nmake.
You can perfectly build your project by calling "devenv /build ..." on 
the command line.


Jörg



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