On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Felipe Crochik <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have to assume this subject has been discussed before in other lists but > since the android port it is a "hot topic" on this list right now I thought > it was worth starting again. I think it is a good idea to reiterate again because many people here have not seen this topic before on this list, I assume. > I deployed a test application using the necessitas project and while I was > impressed on how nice the development experience was (minor a few crashes > on qt creator) I found out that most users that tried to install my > application had a very hard time. > > The current flow requires a user to: > 1) download your "app" from the store; > 2) When executing it for the first time (assuming that the user has never > installed another application based on necessitas) the application will > redirect the user to the google play store to download ministro (what I > found most users will not understand); > 3) After installing ministro the user will need to know to try to execute > the "app" again; > 4) On executing the app for the second time the qt libraries will be > downloaded. > 5) enjoy the app! > > Are there plans to change this flow? > We have not used this workflow for the KDE Harmattan project, but I can understand the reasoning behind as well. We had put the libraries into each application (self-contained or "bundled"), but that resulted the same (sometimes huge) libraries shipped several times. This could mean dozen and even more occurrences for Qt applications. > I have to assume there were good reasons to do like this but without > actually looking into the code it seems that would make more sense to > combine the ministro code with the java wrapper generated for each > application, no? > I am not familiar with the java wrapper et al. Could you please summarize the steps from user perspective you are thinking of? My opinion is now that the two ways (self-containment and explicite downloading) could coexist depending on the use case. I would not use ministro for a small application where I could boundle a small library up. Laszlo
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