Re: [QBS] What is the semantic difference between Rule and Transformer?

2014-11-08 Thread Tim Hutt
As far as I can see, a Transformer isn't aware of file tags - they act on specific file names rather than file types, but yeah they seem to overlap a lot and the use case for Transformers isn't totally clear from the documentation. On 8 Nov 2014 13:39, "Smirnov Vladimir" wrote: > From docs: > -A

[QBS] What is the semantic difference between Rule and Transformer?

2014-11-08 Thread Smirnov Vladimir
From docs: -A /multiplex rule/ creates one /transformer/ that takes all input artifacts with the matching input file tag and creates one or more artifacts. -A /simplex rule/ creates one transformer per matching input file. -A /transformer/ takes zero or more inputs and produces one or more out