Hello! Given that:
- We need to ship a pre-configured version of QC to support our SDK. - We only need a subset of what QC provides out of the box, and the customization we want seems to be achievable by just changing the "share" configuration (ini, xml etc.) - We don't need to always provide the latest version of Creator - The SDK does not need Qt right now, but it will in the near future - Currently supported projects will be written in C and for this reason we will most likely want to only support Cmake, at least for the time being Given this premise, what is the best workflow to maintain such a custom version of Creator? Here are two options I came up with and would like to have any feedback on their maintainability and better alternatives, especially in the light that now pre-compiled Creator is shipped with an installer, as per recent discussion here: WORKFLOW 1 1 - fork/clone QC's repo to my-qc repo 2 - define QC version we want to use (good candidate seems upcoming 4.1 because of improved CMake support) 3 - create new branch (my-qc_4.1) in myQC repo from selected branch (4.1) 4 - create a set of scripts in separate repo (my-qc-scripts) that makes all modifications we want to "shared" folder in my-qc_4.1 5 - run my-qc-scripts on my-qc_4.1 6 - build from my-qc 4.1 7 - distribute the custom builds (without installer?) An alternative to this for me would be to: WORKFLOW 2 1 - take QC pre-built packages for the platforms we want to support 2 - create a repo in their respective "share" folders 3 - create my-qc-scripts that modify the "share" folders (possibly platform-specific) 4 - run my-qc-scripts on the "share" folders of the prebuilt versions 5 - distribute the pre-built versions with custom "share" folder The second options avoids having to compile custom builds but seems a bit dirtier and less maintainable, especially in the long run. Any input is highly appreciated. Many thanks, Marco Piccolino
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