[Development] Proposal: Adding a repository in Qt Project for the Ministro tool, needed by Qt for Android

[Joseph Crowell]

On 01/12/2013 07:43 AM, Bache-Wiig Jens wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As part of the Android-port of Qt 5 being contributed to the Qt Project
>> by BogDan, he also contributed the code for a general-purpose Android
>> app which is used for getting libraries and plugins on demand when a Qt
>> app is deployed to an Android device. This tool is called "Ministro".
>>
>> We need a repository to put it in, and the existing repositories do not
>> seem to fit, so I'm proposing making a new repository for this:
>> ministro/ministro
> I certainly don't mind adding the repository but I presume there will be a branding change once the Android port is made official. While "Neccessitas" and "Ministro" sounds cool, I think it would be better if we stop using those names officially and start to refer to them just as "Qt for Android" and "Qt Library Installer" or something similar and clear.
>
> I think people get a bit worried when they have to install something called "Ministro" on their phones. At least I was rather concerned the first time I installed a Qt app on my device and had to check twice. Perhaps we should name the repository accordingly?
Makes sense to me. I was also a bit concerned although I was reading the 
installation guide the first time I tried back when Necessitas was still 
a fairly new project under Qt 4.7.