On 18 September 2013 19:44, Joseph Rushton Wakeling < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 18/09/13 02:45, Manu wrote: > >> The extent of my experience with QtCreator is that it has a button >> "Generate VS >> Project" in the menu, which I clicked on, and then I opened visual studio. >> For the few moments that I used it, I was surprised by now >> un-like-eclipse it >> looked :) >> Maybe it's decent? What's it's underlying project/build system? >> I have ex-trolltech mates who are now all unemployed... so what's the >> future of >> the tool? >> > > I had the impression the future was very positive, ever since Digia > acquired Qt from Nokia a couple of years back. > > AFAIK it can use make, cmake or qmake as project build systems and can use > GDB, CDB (Microsoft?) and Valgrind for debugging. I don't have enough IDE > experience to really make any judgement, but I wondered if it might meet > your needs as a light, cross-platform IDE. > The problem I've always had with make-based build systems is rebuild dependencies... how do any of those build systems go performing a minimal rebuild, or incremental linking?
