[vlc-devel] [PATCH] qt: use local-path for ui header wrapper

[Alexandre Janniaux]

Pierre, would you have any feedback on whether we move the
UI files in a dedicated folder or not?

Regards,
--
Alexandre Janniaux
Videolabs

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:31:20AM +0100, Marvin Scholz wrote:
> On 10 Mar 2020, at 10:14, Alexandre Janniaux wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > AFAIK, we will remove .ui files in the end, as QML
> > supersedes it, not add new ones.
> >
> > In addition, you'll also get header guard conflicts from the
> > generated header files if you do that, which is probably
> > worse than using the wrong file which will produce an error
> > as the class being used won't exist.
> >
> > Other than that, this is what is done in the meson branch so
> > maybe ePirat can provide context?
> >
>
> Hi, this is something not done explicitly by me but by the meson
> integration for meson.
> This mimics what qmake, Qt’s native build system, does. If you have
> multiple ui files with the same name even in different locations
> it will generate two identical targets, one overriding the other
> and only process one of the two files and in most cases
> fail miserably as soon as those are included and do not provide
> the expected classes.
>
> So I believe we never should have two UI files with the same name
> and IMO it was not the best idea to split the UI files in different
> folders and maybe should revert that change, which would make
> this patch unnecessary.
>
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Alexandre Janniaux
> > Videolabs
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 09:43:14AM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > > Le tiistaina 10. maaliskuuta 2020, 0.05.08 EET Alexandre Janniaux a
> > > écrit :
> > > > Those files could generated in implementation-specified location by
> > > > build systems and we don't need a full path. With meson, it will be
> > > > handled automatically and having a full path makes the file not
> > > > found.
> > >
> > > This strikes me as a bad idea, as you can no longer have the same
> > > file names in
> > > different directories.
> > >
> > > --
> > > 雷米‧德尼-库尔蒙
> > > http://www.remlab.net/
> > >
> > >
> > >
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