RFC: [Bug 201337] Create launch configurations for executables

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

On 24.07.09 11:58:32, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> For CMake projects, KDevelop should automatically create a "launch
> configuration" for each ADD_EXECUTABLE, KDE4_ADD_EXECUTABLE, etc found.
> Currently, you need to create the launch configurations manually. QtCreator
> creates them automatically, and it's very convenient.

I've tried this and ended up with about 4 pages of menu item under the
Launch Configurations submenu (due to all the unit-tests, probably would
be even more for kdelibs or similar). Apart from that, its basically
impossible to do this once we have more than 1 launch config type as
then the runcontroller doesn't know which launch config type to use for
the configs. 

One option would be to do this in the plugin that actually supplies the
launch config type, i.e. the execute plugin. However that would mean
making more of the shell implementation of launch configs public and
accessible by plugins. Also the plugin also has no idea about which
of the targets it should really create launch configs for.

I don't think it makes sense to auto-add all executable targets when
loading a project. David already had suggestions how to make it easier
to execute targets from the project, I also thought about having a
simple option "Execute this target" and "Debug this target" in the
context menu's for targets.

Opinions?

Andreas

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