[Development] Experimental Qt 5 installers by Digia

[Richard Moore]

Thanks Turunen, good to see this side of the release moving forward.

Cheers

Rich.



On 12 July 2012 14:59, Turunen Tuukka <Tuukka.Turunen at digia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> As you know we have been working in close co-operation in the Qt Project for
> making the installers for Qt 5 as well as the tools to create these.
>
> If you wish, you can take a look on the experimental installers we create
> at: http://releases.qt-project.org/digia/
>
> Currently the installers are built each night from the latest stable Qt 5
> and placed to the above mentioned location. If the build or packaging fails,
> then that installer is omitted. Though called beta1, these are currently
> made with the latest Qt 5, which as we know has not yet reached beta
> maturity.
>
> These are additional to the ones you can get from
> http://releases.qt-project.org/qt5.0/beta-snapshots/ In essence these should
> be identical. While we cook with the same recipes, these are baked in our
> kitchen that has some differences to the Qt Project build machines. So
> sometimes there are differences in the created installers as well. Having
> two different setups is good in verifying that the recipes really work and
> that there are not too many 'secret ingredients' in either one of the
> cookings.
>
> Unfortunately we can not yet provide build logs or release test results, so
> it may be hard to determine what is wrong based on just these. Also we are
> not running any automated tests to these installers like we do for the Qt
> 4.8 ones, so there may well be whatever regressions in these. So please
> regard these as experimental installers that they are.
>
> Yours,
>
> --
>
> Tuukka Turunen
>
> Director, Qt Commercial R&D
>
> Digia Plc
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