On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez <geronimo...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2012, Coda Highland wrote: >> And Creator already has an easy-to-use UI for the job -- it's just "open >> project". > > Hm - do you refer to a former release of QtCreator?
Possibly. It's been a long time since I've used Creator for more than qmake projects. >> , possibly stashing some relevant metadata for convenience/extensibility >> (like the generic makefile project). > > not sure, whether I understand that. Makefiles contain all of the information necessary to build a project, but provide very little information on how you want to edit it. Creator makes a data file beside the makefile when you open a generic makefile as a project in order to store things like how you've chosen to organize the files and what project-level editor settings you've selected. For what it's worth, it creates this file for qmake projects too (the .pro.user file); it (theoretically) contains information relevant to the IDE but not relevant to the build process. (I say "theoretically" because sometimes it does end up holding build settings; this is a longstanding issue that's complicated to resolve but it's not that hard to avoid the problem.) /s/ Adam _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
