[Qt5-feedback] Qt5's qmake

[Andre Somers]

Op Vr, 13 mei, 2011 5:53 pm, schreef Joerg Bornemann:
> On 12/05/2011 18:12, ext Andre Somers wrote:
>
>> Not that I know much about make-files and their problems, but to me it
>> seems like Qt could learn from its experiences with QML in building
>> something declarative-yet-scriptable for building Qt apps.
>
> In 2009 there was this article was posted on Qt Labs:
> http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/10/12/to-make-or-not-to-make-qmake-and-beyond/
>
> Its a nice collection of thoughts about a 'future qmake'. The language
> part embraces JSON but nowadays QML + JavaScript could be the choice.
> And Qt Creator would of course benefit from a seamless integration of
> the build tool.

What is not in there, and what _would_ be very nice to have, is making
sure the tool chain will finally really support using file paths with all
the characters that may be in there, including spaces. Where needed, the
tool should properly escape them for passing them to compilers, linkers or
other tools involved, but the user should not be bothered with that, nor
should there be a limitation that Qt be installed in a path without spaces
or any such nonsense. We are long past the age of 8.3 file names, lets
make sure we can actually use that.

André