The gentoo ebuild of qt-creator does not install qmlpuppet (bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367383).

While this is of course a problem with the Gentoo ebuild (and I already reported is as such), I still think qt-creator could handle this situation a bit better.

s it stands now, the whole IDE hangs forever because of a call to waitForNewConnection() in NodeInstanceServerProxy's constructor. The application has to be killed and unsafed work could be lost.

I talked about the on the #qt-creator channel and it was suggested that I report it as an issue here.

As NodeInstanceServerProxy is a QObject subclass, maybe the newConnection() signal of QLocalServer could be used instead to make the connection to qmlpuppet non-blocking? Even a timeout to waitForNewConnection() with an appropriate qFatal() would be helpful.