diff --git a/3rdparty/qtcreator/.gitignore b/3rdparty/qtcreator/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e0f75dc325
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rdparty/qtcreator/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Ignore everything in this directory...
+*
+# Except for this file, and the script.
+!.gitignore
+!create_project_file.sh
diff --git a/3rdparty/qtcreator/create_project_file.sh b/3rdparty/qtcreator/create_project_file.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..ce9fb8a857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rdparty/qtcreator/create_project_file.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
+	echo "This script creates project files for Qt Creator to develop Haiku with."
+	echo "It should only be used on a per-project basis, as Qt Creator is too slow"
+	echo "when used on all of Haiku at once."
+	echo ""
+	echo "THIS SCRIPT *MUST* BE RUN FROM THE REPOSITORY ROOT."
+	echo ""
+	echo "Usage: <script> <project name> <path to project root>"
+	echo "e.g: create_project_file.sh Tracker src/kits/tracker/"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+NAME=$1
+ROOTDIR=$2
+
+printf "// Add predefined macros for your project here. For example:\n// #define THE_ANSWER 42\n" \
+	>$DIR/$NAME.config
+printf "[General]\n" >$DIR/$NAME.creator
+
+# Build lists of files
+find $ROOTDIR -type f | sed "s@^@../../@" >$DIR/$NAME.files
+find $ROOTDIR -type d | sed "s@^@../../@" >$DIR/$NAME.includes
+find headers -type d | sed "s@^@../../@" >>$DIR/$NAME.includes
+echo "Done. Project file: $DIR/$NAME.creator"
diff --git a/3rdparty/qtcreator/create_project_files.pl b/3rdparty/qtcreator/create_project_files.pl
deleted file mode 100644
index afdd626a11..0000000000
--- a/3rdparty/qtcreator/create_project_files.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-use warnings;
-use strict;
-
-=head1 create_project_files.pl
-
-This simple script traverses the haiku sources and creates (incomplete) *.pro
-files in order to make the haiku sources available within the qt-creator IDE.
-Additionally, it will add those files to svn:ignore of their parent directory
-(unless already contained there).
-
-=cut
-
-use File::Basename;
-use File::Find;
-
-if (!@ARGV) {
-	die "usage: $0 <haiku-top-path>\n";
-}
-
-my $haikuTop = shift @ARGV;
-if (!-e "$haikuTop/ReadMe.cross-compile") {
-	die "'$haikuTop/ReadMe.cross-compile' not found - not a haiku top!\n";
-}
-
-my %collection;
-
-print "scanning ...\n";
-find({ wanted => \&process, no_chdir => 1}, 
-	("$haikuTop/headers", "$haikuTop/src"));
-
-writeProFile("$haikuTop/haiku.pro", { subdirs => ['headers', 'src'] });
-foreach my $dir (sort keys %collection) {
-	my $proFile = $dir.'/'.fileparse($dir).'.pro';
-	writeProFile($proFile, $collection{$dir});
-}
-
-sub process
-{
-	if (substr($_, -4, 4) eq '.svn') {
-		$File::Find::prune = 1;
-	} else {
-		return if $File::Find::dir eq $_;	# skip toplevel folders
-		my $name = (fileparse($_))[0];
-		if (-d $_) {
-			$collection{$File::Find::dir}->{subdirs} ||= [];
-			push @{$collection{$File::Find::dir}->{subdirs}}, $name;
-			return;
-		}
-		elsif ($_ =~ m{\.(h|hpp)$}i) {
-			$collection{$File::Find::dir}->{headers} ||= [];
-			push @{$collection{$File::Find::dir}->{headers}}, $name;
-		}
-		elsif ($_ =~ m{\.(c|cc|cpp|s|asm)$}i) {
-			$collection{$File::Find::dir}->{sources} ||= [];
-			push @{$collection{$File::Find::dir}->{sources}}, $name;
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-sub writeProFile
-{
-	my ($proFile, $info) = @_;
-	
-	return if !$info;
-	
-	print "creating $proFile\n";
-	open(my $proFileFH, '>', $proFile)
-		or die "unable to write $proFile";
-	print $proFileFH "TEMPLATE = subdirs\n";
-	print $proFileFH "CONFIG += ordered\n";
-	if (exists $info->{subdirs}) {
-		print $proFileFH 
-			"SUBDIRS = ".join(" \\\n\t", sort @{$info->{subdirs}})."\n";
-	}
-	if (exists $info->{headers}) {
-		print $proFileFH 
-			"HEADERS = ".join(" \\\n\t", sort @{$info->{headers}})."\n";
-	}
-	if (exists $info->{sources}) {
-		print $proFileFH 
-			"SOURCES = ".join(" \\\n\t", sort @{$info->{sources}})."\n";
-	}
-	close $proFileFH;
-	
-	updateSvnIgnore($proFile);
-}
-
-sub updateSvnIgnore
-{
-	my $proFile = shift;
-
-	my ($filename, $parentDir) = fileparse($proFile);
-
-	my $svnIgnore = qx{svn propget --strict svn:ignore $parentDir};
-	if (!grep { $_ eq $filename } split "\n", $svnIgnore) {
-		chomp $svnIgnore;
-		$svnIgnore .= "\n" unless !$svnIgnore;
-		$svnIgnore .= "$filename\n";
-		open(my $propsetFH, "|svn propset svn:ignore --file - $parentDir")
-			or die "unable to open pipe to 'svn propset'";
-		print $propsetFH $svnIgnore;
-		close($propsetFH);
-	}
-}