Merging "generic project manager" and "custom buildsystem"

Aleksey Midenkov midenok at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 08:03:01 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> a user just noticed that the custom buildsystem KCM was shown in the project
> configuration dialog. I'll try to find out why that is and ensure its not
> being show there.
>
> But it did made me wonder: Do we want to bother a user with this decision?
> Couldn't we just make the "custom buildsystem" our "generic project manager"
> and be done with it?
>
> The generic manager is mostly useful for simple script projects and similar,
> which are also nicely handled by the custom build system with an empty
> configuration - no?
>
> Furthermore, once a script project becomes a bit more involved, having a way
> to run a script to deploy the project somewhere or similar might be nice to
> have, and with the custom buildsystem you'd get that for free, no?
>
> Opinions?

I like it!


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