Why?

Cause

• Qt GP logs are cryptic and does not explain what is wrong
• Build does not stop to error

Customer

• From Qt hackathon participants and from my testing.

Cruft

• Why this would not be needed?

What?

One of the most common and repeating issues were to do with logs:​

• Cryptic logs that are don’t explain what’s wrong (take C++ build fail due to a compile error).​
• The user will have to hunt for the logs in the see of Gradle logs.​
• Why doesn’t the build immediately stop when there’s an error?​

As a first step to remedy this we should:

• Revise our code and make sure to return early in case of errors.​
• Fail and warn early on about any missing tools, wrong values, etc.