On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Kalinowski Maurice <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We are currently going through the examples for the final Qt 5 packages and > as mentioned before, there are some differences compared to Qt 4 packaging. > > Most prominently, examples are packaged via make install and then taken from > the prefix directory. This has two problems: > a) We need to adapt some install rules to also include dependencies, > otherwise they would not build on user's target installation > b) We are packaging a whole bunch of generated binaries (the example binaries > themselves) while one would expect users to use qmake/make in any case. > > Also install rules are a bit misused as they need to install the sources, > which is what you usually do not want to do and taking example code as a > guideline for beginners might lead them into the wrong direction. > > My question is, what are the benefits compared to picking the example source > code from the source package directly. Does anybody really want to have > prebuilt binaries in the examples directory? Current assumption is that you > go through the list via Qt Creator and build the examples are required for > testing purposes.
To my knowledge the point of having prebuilt examples is for use in QtDemo. This demo application did a great job showcasing Qts functionality even before developers chose to start an IDE. > As we are so close to the final release, most likely nothing will happen > within the 5.0 timeframe, but we should aim for a decision at least for 5.1. I don't think QtDemo made it into 5.0 :( . If we can bring it back for 5.1 then it's still worth having built examples for it to launch. -- Alan Alpert _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
