[Qt5-feedback] Qt5's qmake

[André Pönitz]

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 21:42:42 ext Peter Kümmel wrote:
> [...]
> "usable for both Qt and Qt Creator" is qmake good enough for this only?

While qmake works for Qt and Qt Creator, it does not really work _well_ 
for either. From an IDE point of view It does not (easily) give access 
to functionality like "rebuild this translation unit only", or "run this file
through the preprocessor" and other interesting features. It's also not
easy to set up inter-project dependencies, "configure" the project,
it does not provide fast round trips when only one file changes etc.
So there is a lot room for potential improvements.

But I really don't want that discussion here, right now. It's not exactly a 
"Qt 5" issue, and we have enough naked flames around already. qmake will
be available in Qt 5, whether there will be anything else in addition, and if
so in what time frame remains to be seen.

I would prefer to talk about the issue at the Contributors' Summit or 
maybe handle the IDE related aspects on qt-creator at qt.nokia.com.

Andre'

PS: Don't get me wrong. qmake is very nice for simple things that work
on a "qmake -project && qmake && make" base. It is also pretty powerful
with a lot of hooks to do "more interesting" stuff, but the quirks it has
on the language side and the set of "clever" ad-hoc additions makes it 
really hard to use properly.