Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-24 Thread Thomas Epting
Hallo Tobias! > how does commandline qbs know that it is supposed to use > incredibuild or not? The short answer is: it doesn't. The more detailed answer: IncrediBuild provides an "interception" interface ( http://www.incredibuild.com/webhelp/IncrediBuild_integration_interfaces2.html), which is

Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-24 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hallo Thomas, how does commandline qbs know that it is supposed to use incredibuild or not? Considering that starting Qt Creator in ibconsole seems to suggest that the difference might just be a couple of environment variables... Maybe it is enough to set up those varibales as the build envir

Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-23 Thread Thomas Epting
> Why? The internal one would not be used for building. Of course you'd > lose the benefits of the integration and would need custom run > configurations and so on; that just follows from diverging from the > default workflow. Hmm ... that sounds feasible, but still inconvenient to some extend. I

Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-23 Thread Christian Kandeler
On 07/23/2014 05:01 PM, Thomas Epting wrote: > > If you really want to run the command line version of qbs, you'll have > > to use a different profile than the one you have opened your project > > with. Maybe clone the kit? > > I'm somehow unsure, how would that help? As far as I understand it,

Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-23 Thread Thomas Epting
> If you really want to run the command line version of qbs, you'll have > to use a different profile than the one you have opened your project > with. Maybe clone the kit? I'm somehow unsure, how would that help? As far as I understand it, we still would end with an internal buildgraph and an ext

Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-23 Thread Christian Kandeler
On 07/23/2014 04:18 PM, Thomas Epting wrote: > > > I'm not knowledgeable about Incredibuild at all, but any solution that > > > calls the qbs command line tool seems entirely wrong. > > > Why not just start Creator via ibconsole? > > > > While this works in theory, it has some major impac

Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-23 Thread Thomas Epting
> > I'm not knowledgeable about Incredibuild at all, but any solution that > > calls the qbs command line tool seems entirely wrong. > > Why not just start Creator via ibconsole? > > While this works in theory, it has some major impacts on usability. The > most important one is that your work

Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-22 Thread Thomas Epting
> I'm not knowledgeable about Incredibuild at all, but any solution that > calls the qbs command line tool seems entirely wrong. > Why not just start Creator via ibconsole? While this works in theory, it has some major impacts on usability. The most important one is that your workstations remains

Re: [QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-22 Thread Christian Kandeler
On 07/22/2014 09:06 AM, Thomas Epting wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I want to create a solution for Qbs builds using the "IncrediBuild" > build accelerator from within QtCreator. > > For that reason I'm developing a plugin which allows adding a custom > IncrediBuild step. It exactly clones all settings

[QBS] Qbs IncrediBuild in QtCreator

2014-07-22 Thread Thomas Epting
Hi everyone, I want to create a solution for Qbs builds using the "IncrediBuild" build accelerator from within QtCreator. For that reason I'm developing a plugin which allows adding a custom IncrediBuild step. It exactly clones all settings from the corresponding normal Qbs build step, prevents e