On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Thorbjørn Lindeijer wrote: > That Qt Creator allows you to set the directory in which to do the build > should not be a surprise, nor should it be surprising that this is > stored in a .user file, since its up to each developer. > > Note that this is quite different from setting OBJECTS_DIR, UI_DIR, etc. > so there is no duplication here. The main purpose of the shadow builds > is to build against different Qt configurations.
Is the assumption being made that OBJECTS_DIR, UI_DIR, and others should always be relative paths? If that assumption is true, then it seems to me that specifying a shadow build directory should not break the .pro file. Perhaps the difficulty with shadow builds arises when developers put absolute paths in OBJECTS_DIR and such, because then the OBJECTS_DIR would override the shadow build dir, rather than work with it. Am I right? If I am missing something, please explain in more detail how setting the shadow build dir "is quite different from setting OBJECTS_DIR, UI_DIR, etc." I do find it an annoyance that when loading a project into Qt Creator for the first time, that I can find no way to NOT specify a shadow build. I have to go into the project settings after it is loaded and uncheck the shadow build option. Did I miss something there? John _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
