> > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:04:43 +0200 > From: Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Eclipse to QtCreator project file converter > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:29:13PM +0200, ext Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > Yes, that's how it is supposed to be, at least from the cmake POV. CMake > > generates projects for the IDEs. The IDEs should not have to care whether > the > > project file has been written by cmake or by themselves or in any other > way. > > this is a completely absurd postulation - it inherently goes against the > I in IDE. > but then, we already established that it's apparently impossible to get > you out of the meta thinking, so i rest my case. >
Oswald I agree with you that IDE involves everything, from editing code to building it. But perhaps you might also agree that some of the currently available IDE's were conceived in a period of platform fragmentation. When everybody just did their own thing. Nowadays most developers want to write (and build) cross-platform code. So maybe it's a good time to re-think the I in IDE. Personally, I would not mind if project files generation was left up to cmake and the IDE just did code highlighting, text editing, auto-complete and interpreting the compiler/debugger output. Just thinking out loud.
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