On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 00:02, Christian Kandeler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> It's great to see the work done on improving the Maemo autopackager in >> the Qt Creator nightlies, especially as pertains to packaging >> libraries. > > AFAIK, the nightly builds are the 2.1 branch. While there are > improvements there as well, they are rather small compared to the work > going on in the master branch. > > > I have a question, though. Currently, the Run feature >> still expects to be able to execute some specific program (which >> obviously won't exist in a library package), and thus fails to deploy >> library packages at all. How is this planned to be handled in the >> future? Simply fixing this issue would work, but ideally it would be >> nice if "deployment" wasn't tied as tightly to "running/debugging" a >> single app, since deployment/installation could then be handled more >> generically. > > The master branch already has a "Deploy Project" action, which can exist > without a run configuration.
Excellent - I shall have to poke at Master, then. >> Also, on an aside, is there any interest in extending the autopackager >> plugin to produce packages for desktop platforms? I would assume that >> for Debian-based systems, much of the current code might be >> applicable, at least. > > Maemo is a platform with specific conventions, so we can make > assumptions about the target device. For the desktop, the situation is > much more complicated, because Creator is multi-platform: We can't > provide a packaging feature just for Debian; we'd also have to support > rpm-based Linux packages, Windows installers and whatever it is they use > on Mac. Preferably supporting all kinds of cross compilers etc. You can > add a suggestion in JIRA, but it probably won't get the highest priority. I understand. I was intending the question more for the community at large; I figured it wouldn't be a priority for Nokia, but that someone might be interested in hacking on it at some level. > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > Thanks, - Jeffery MacEachern _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
