[Development] [QtIFW] Offline from online?

Konstantin Podsvirov konstantin at podsvirov.pro
Thu Jan 8 10:07:13 CET 2015



17.12.2014, 12:53, "Koehne Kai" <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com>:
> > ----- Original Message-----
>> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-
>> Subject: [Development] [QtIFW] Offline from online?
>> What about the creation of the offline installers based on shared in the online repository
>> components?
>
> So far the IFW doesn't offer such functionality out of the box. Could you elaborate a bit on the use case you have in mind?

When developing a large project consisting of several modules (for example, Qt Framework) that accompanies each module can build and upload a compressed binary repository on the server to use this module, developers of other modules.

Now the developers of the modules do not need to build third-party modules to develop your module.

So. For each module there is an online repository. All happy.

But, we still need to create the offline installer to install the project on a separate machine without access to the online repository. To create such an installer, we need not compressed packages of each module. We take all of these packages and will be compressed in to record installerbase. Why?
Each module has already been built and compressed. It seems to me online repository contains enough information to create the offline installer.

You only need to teach binarycreator as the option to take some components are not from the folder with the packages (option-p), and from an online repository.

I believe that this functionality will be in demand.

Kai, what do you think? It is difficult to do it?

Regards,
Konstantin Podsvirov



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