[Development] Frameworks on Mac?

[Sorvig Morten]

On Nov 22, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>
 wrote:
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> 22.11.2012, 16:04, "Rutledge Shawn" <Shawn.Rutledge at digia.com>:
>> On 22 Nov 2012, at 12:06 PM, Volker Götz wrote:
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>> Yeah I know, and that's very convenient, but I've seen installers sometimes too.
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>> We could even offer a way to make it easy for application developers to make installers, in order to standardize the Qt framework installation at bit more.  For example QBS could generate a target to build an installer.  If it will save memory on users' systems, it seems like a good thing, right?
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> There's installer of Qt which install Qt frameworks globally to the system. However, sharing them between application on end-user system is not a good idea, because it may result in conflicts between Qt applications.

I think the way to go for deployment on Mac is definitively self-contained app bundles where each app carries its own copy of Qt. This is what macdeployqt creates. Anything else is as you say just going to create conflicts. Self-contained bundles are also enforced by the app store. 

It does not really matter if Qt is deployed as frameworks or .dylibs inside the bundle.

Morten