Hi! I started experimenting with bringing upstream Qt as is as a cloud part. I can happily announce an early let's say "alpha" version of it is working and available with "after: [qt57]".
This is not the "qt-ubuntu" I've a vision of as being available via content interface, but rather building upstream Qt as part of your app. This is only worth considering if you absolutely require a newer Qt than what is available in Ubuntu (5.5 in Ubuntu 16.04, 5.6 in Ubuntu 16.10, 5.7 somewhere Jan-Feb in Ubuntu 17.04). For fun, you can try out a dummy QML test app (C++ backend included though) by: sudo snap install --edge timostestapp2 timostestapp2 Mind the missing font for Chinese characters, it's not a bug, just a font not staged :) What it's really about is that it is a simple application that happens to bundle and uses upstream's to-be-released Qt 5.7.1 built with the cloud part. Included Qt modules: Qt 3D, Qt Bluetooth, Qt Base (Core, Gui etc), Qt Declarative, Qt Tools, Qt Web Channel, ... and a lot more, but _not_: qtwebengine, qtwebview, qtwebkit. Also no Ubuntu UI Toolkit yet, we haven't started testing it with Qt 5.7 yet. You can use the snapcraft.yaml, launcher and modified parts/plugins from https://github.com/tjyrinki/timostestapp2. Modified autotools plugin is for building Qt (it doesn't seem to fetch that from the cloud part, that would be nice), and modified qmake plugin is for building your app. No CMake plugin or such yet, this is very much "yay, it runs now!!" first version done in-between all my other tasks. -Timo -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
