Re: [jamboost] Adding QT support to Boost Build V2

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-17 10:29:10

Jürgen Hunold wrote:

> I've literally hundreds of headers with Q_OBJECT in them lying around 
> here.
> Please think of the steps necessary to add a Q_OBJECT to a header:
> change a.h -> a.qpp
> change x.cpp to #include a.qpp
> When you use CVS (we do), you have to
> remove a.h, add a.qpp which is not recommend by CVS, causing much grief 
> and loss of file-history.
> commit x.cpp
> 
> And think of doing this to several hundred files for initial change. My 
> collegues will try to kill me....

What you say is exactly what occured to me yesterday late in the evening.
Boost.Build is a tool, and we cannot force any conventions on users. If they 
use "h", we should support it.

I think we'd support "h". It would be mocced only for qt-using executables.

- Volodya