Re: [QBS] What is the semantic difference between Rule and Transformer?

2014-11-10 Thread Stéphane Fabry
A transformer can be used without input, just to produce an output artifact from nothing. Le 08-11-14 14:44, Tim Hutt a écrit : As far as I can see, a Transformer isn't aware of file tags - they act on specific file names rather than file types, but yeah they seem to overlap a lot and the

Re: [QBS] What is the semantic difference between Rule and Transformer?

2014-11-10 Thread Joerg Bornemann
On 08-Nov-14 14:40, Smirnov Vladimir wrote: So I can imagine that Rule wraps some Transformer's functionality. But why don't just use only Rules? What can i do with Transformer that Rule couldn't cover? Like Tim already mentioned, rules are triggered by matching file tags, transformers OTOH