What is the best way to copy an existing KDevelop project folder to another directory, so that the new project contains all the correct directory settings and configuration and there is as little manual editing (and thus less room for error) as possible?
There is some information about someone being successful here about copying the project and then editing every reference to the old path, but this is exactly what I’m hoping to avoid.
In fact, the Kdevelop manual specifically recommends against doing this (see manual, chapter 8, “Project Hacking” [would post a link but I’m nerfed for now]).
This project is shared on an SCM and should have as little dependency on a particular user as possible.
Project-files are project-related and therefore contain a lot of absolute paths etc. Its mostly easier to just import the sources again as a new project.
I’m using CMake which means that I just need to reset build-paths and the install-prefix. Sometimes environment variables needs to be added but thats just copy+paste.