If anyone is taking this on, it would be nice to have support for EditorConfig files.
http://editorconfig.org/ --- Andy Maloney // https://asmaloney.com twitter ~ @asmaloney <https://twitter.com/asmaloney> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hun...@qt.io> wrote: > On Di, 2016-09-27 at 21:04 -0700, Sanchez, Jack wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have been looking into sharing specific build and run configurations > with > > my team agnostic of the kit. I have found the documentation which > suggests > > this is possible, but also seems to hint that this is for sharing across > > personal projects rather than in a team environment. There are also many > > stackoverflow, et. al., posts which ask the same question with no > response > > other than a pointer to the same Qt documentation I've already read. > > That is not going to work, sorry. > > All the build and run settings stored in the .user files. They are grouped > below > a Target, which is referencing a kit by its id. When creator loads a .user > file > it will skip all the targets (and all the settings below the target) that > come > with unknown kit ids. > > So if you want to share .user files, then you have to make sure all users > have > the same kits with the same kit ids. The only way to actually pick kit ids > is > via the SDK tool -- a rather ugly program that the Qt installer uses to > register > Qt versions, etc. All kits created via the UI get random ids, so those are > out. > > So if you limit yourself to the kits installed by the Qt installer you > might be > lucky -- provided your users happen to have exactly the same Qt versions > installed as you do and are on the same platform. > > If you administer a locked-down environment where your developers have to > work > with the kits you pre-installed for them, then you do control the kits > they work > with. You got a fair chance to share settings in such an environment. > > > This is a fairly common need and it seems unlikely to me that Qt Creator > > does not support this. > > Yes, this has been requested and talked about many times before. > Unfortunately > there still is no good solution for the problem:-/ Sorry. > > My idea -- when I get round to working on this front again -- is to enable > project-specific wizards. Basically you could have e.g. a .qtc-wizards > directory > in your project, checked in with the rest of your sources. Creator would > then > check in that directory whenever it needs to offer wizards to its users. > That > would enable cool things like have project-specific templates for all > kinds of > files, etc. > > If you open a project for the first time, then Creator could look for a > wizard > in .qtc-wizards/projectsetup and run that wizard if found. That wizard > would > then be able to display a UI, asking your users for all kind of things > (e.g. > install location of dependencies), doing other things (like check out > subprojects from a repository somewhere) and it could configure your > project > with custom build steps and whatnot. Of course a wizard does not need to > show a > UI and can just do his work in silence and without user interaction. > > The introduction of the JSON wizards got us within reach of that idea, but > unfortunately I am not going to get round to that anytime soon:-/ > > Patches are welcome! Feel free to contact me if you are interested in this > topic:-) > > > Is there a way to build a kit which generates a common GUID and/or > > assigning the GUID to a user's kit (git-hooks and scripts?) in order to > > trick the system into reading these shared settings? > > The only way to force GUIDs for the kits is the sdktool. > > > Any help is appreciated! > > Best Regards, > Tobias > > -- > Tobias Hunger, Senior Software Engineer | The Qt Company > The Qt Company GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin > Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho. Sitz der > Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB > 144331 B > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > Qt-creator@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator >
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