[Development] dev snapshots idea

[Gianluca]

+1 for the idea of having continuous creation of snapshots every 1-2 weeks as proposed by Massimo Callegari

Il giorno 08/dic/2014, alle ore 16:19, Ayberk Özgür <ayberk.ozgur at epfl.ch> ha scritto:

> +1 for being able to work with Qt3D dev branch without building Qt itself.
> 
> On 08. 12. 14 16:17, Massimo Callegari wrote:
>> Andrew,
>> I am well aware of that site, and I frequently download snapshots when they are available.
>> My whole point is regarding Qt 5.5.0.
>> Now we need to wait months before the first alpha snapshots will be available.
>> 
>> My idea is to start seeing snapshots this month.
>> I am especially interested in Qt3D and I already have given feedbacks via IRC to the developers.
>> Since a couple of weeks, Qt3D can be built only on 5.5, ad even if I am sure I can build Qt5-dev on Linux, I am discouraged to work with GIT.
>> Moreover I can't give any feedback on Windows, OSX or Android, as building for those platforms is (at least for me) a pain in the ass.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Massimo
>> 
>> Da: Knight Andrew <andrew.knight at theqtcompany.com>
>> A: Massimo Callegari <massimocallegari at yahoo.it>; "development at qt-project.org" <development at qt-project.org> 
>> Inviato: Lunedì 8 Dicembre 2014 16:10
>> Oggetto: RE: [Development] dev snapshots idea
>> 
>> Hi Massimo,
>>  
>> Perhaps you’re looking for http://download.qt-project.org/snapshots/ ?
>>  
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> From: development-bounces+andrew.knight=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org [mailto:development-bounces+andrew.knight=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Massimo Callegari
>> Sent: 08 December 2014 17:07
>> To: development at qt-project.org
>> Subject: [Development] dev snapshots idea
>>  
>> Hello Qt team, Jani,
>> if possible, it would be nice to have snapshots during the whole development of a Qt release.
>> I'm not asking for nightly builds, but I would say snapshots every 1-2 weeks would allow a lot of users 
>> to test the latest developments, especially for those who follow Gerrit like me.
>> Building Qt from GIT is somehow tedious, requires a lot of time and moreover you're never sure if a build issue is because you haven't done a proper clean/disclean/uninstall/git pull.
>>  
>> I believe it would also help you guys not to rush to fix deployment issues when the time comes to release an alpha/beta/rc.
>>  
>> Maybe you can just limit the targets to the most used ones, which you will decide.
>> E.g. Linux+Android x64, OSX android+ios, Windows msvc2013 opengl and sources.
>>  
>> I would appreciate some feedback about this idea. If it is not feasible, just let us know.
>> Thanks in advance and keep up the good work !
>>  
>> Massimo
>> 
>> 
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