On Thursday 22:04:42, Oron Peled wrote: > ... QT does not ship these tools as Trolltech probably assume > you will use their qmake tool...
Yes, I mentioned the possibility of qmake, but....
but for developing Qt/KDE apps, it is THE easiest tool that I've seen.
Exactly. The question is if your project is *only* a QT/KDE app?
Many projects have QT/KDE gui but uses many other libraries as well as an example of (non-QT) project with many dependencies: $ ldd /usr/bin/gnomemeeting | wc -l 70 (for the curious, of these maybe ~20-25 are gui related).
Would qmake save you work with the other 40-50 libraries? No. Would most of these libraries have autotools macros? You bet.
So I would use qmake for pure QT/KDE jobs with almost no other dependencies/options. Real world apps (for some definition of "real world"), regretfully require build environment which is more complex.
There is no doubt in my mind that you're right my friend, just as there is no doubt in my mind that our friends from Trolltech provided us with qmake not only to make our lives easier but to make us use their tools :)
The problem with autotools is that they are hard to use if you're inexperienced with them and have to do something *special*.
In order to be able to extend autotools and do special feats you need a better understanding that just specifying source files and link stuff in your Makefile.am :)
At least there's a free book (although the problem is - you have to READ it hehe)
Eli
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