On 25/10/17 12:24, Christian Gagneraud wrote:
On 25/10/2017 10:30 AM, resurrect...@centrum.cz wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to announce:
*qbs-autoproject*
"A project file to end all project files."
**https://github.com/Resurr3ction/qbs-autoproject
Wow! It looks interesting, I will definitely give it a try on our
project!
I watched the QtWS video about Qbs, and discovered the
"qbs-create-project" command.
I tried both tools on a somehow large project, qbs-autoproject tooks
something like 10 to 15 minutes (as advertised), qbs-create-project was
so fast that i thought it failed immediately.
The 2 projects project have quite a different approach, but i see good
things for both.
I am interested by these tools, as for now, i have 2 of my own -
customised for my very specific case:
- A shell script (yes), it can generate the perfect set of qbs file
from a set of msvc projects that allows me to use QtCreator as an
editor, generated qbs files are unmaintainable, it takes a minute or so
to execute.
- Python code (WIP) that parse an msvc solution, and generate qbs
files that allow me to fully use QtC and provide clean Qbs files.
The python stuff doesn't work yet as i would like.
qbs-autoproject generated an interesting file structure while
qbs-create-project both in flat and hierarchy mode didn't suit me (when
used in QtC).
qbs-autoproject goes through a dependency analysis phase which is
interesting but very slow (as advertised), guess what? My code base
failed the acyclic test. Thank you for letting me know! ;)
Luckily it is easy to fix.
At this stage, i'm not sure if qbs-autoproject refused to write the qbs
files, or if it allows to generate broken qbs files, that can then be
fixed manually.
After trying the "full" dependency-tracked custom Qbs (Export items), i
decided that i don't want that. I like it, but I cannot afford so to
speak. My DAG is so wild, that qbs fight to load it and i end up with
Linux's limits.conf problems. Such as command line too long (true) and
too many open files (Ubuntu's mistake).
It's not clear to me how i can inject my initial qbs support files into
the qbs-autoproject ones, maybe i just need to edit '.qbs-autoproject/'
files. I found it hard to define "where the project is", "what the
project name is", and "where is my custom stuff".
I don't think that Qbs has and want a cpp parser in their dependency,
but maybe a project generator plugin system (importer from a Qbs user
POV) could allow for optional heavy dependencies.
I'm just thinking loudly, I unfortunately didn't have much time to play
with qbs-autoproject and qbs-create-project tools.
Who wrote qbs-create-project by the way?
Chris
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