>
> A properly written .pro file should indeed not break when using shadow
> builds.
>

There's very little documentation (other than working examples like Creator
itself which are huge) on how to write a .pro file 'properly'. Creator
itself confounds this by providing overly simple templates. I had to turn to
google to figure out how to setup basic things like library links, include
paths and change-dependencies. These are functions that the IDE should
provide. Better wizards would go a long way to helping here (eg. a Wizard
for setting up a library link capable of setting up the pro file 'properly'
and a SUBDIR wizard).


>
> Of course, I can sympathize with the problems many are having now and
> the lack of documentation. It was a hard choice to make between breaking
> some projects by doing shadow builds by default (which can generally be
> fixed), or not being able to support building against different Qt
> configurations properly (desktop, Maemo, S60, Simulator, etc.)


I don't understand why shadow builds were made the default - they've been an
optional feature of Creator for some time now so if you needed them, they
were there. Why the change?


> Of course, maybe it still makes sense to have an option to disable the
> "shadow-build by default" thing for those not interested in building for
> different targets.
>

Yes this would be a good idea, a return to 1.x behavior. The problem is that
the pro.user files have to be regularly being re-generated.



> Regards,
> Bjørn
>
> --
> Thorbjørn Lindeijer
> Software Engineer
> Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
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