[Development] Qt 5.9 prebuild binary packages( was: Re: Qt 5.9)

[Oliver Wolff]

Can someone elaborate on how "one package per OS" reduces the testing 
burden significantly? We still have to check every 
platform/configuration that is inside the package. All that changes is 
that the testers install from one big package instead of smaller 
packages. I doubt that one person will check the whole windows package 
(for example). At least I will not volunteer to do that :X


On 21/12/2016 19:37, Jake Petroules wrote:
> LET'S DO IT! And thank you for following through on this idea.
>
> This will reduce our package testing burden significantly which is very important because it lowers the barrier to entry for us to actually add new platforms/installers. For example, adding tvOS to the combined macOS/iOS/Android package would be valuable.
>
> I would omit the host architectures (it provides no useful value since there are multiple host architectures in some cases) and target platforms from the filenames, though (like -android, -qnx, -android-ios), because they aren't there for the Windows package so it would be more consistent. The download descriptions should detail what each package contains.
>
> Also, can we simply subsume the QNX packages into the base enterprise packages? i.e. combine qt-enterprise-linux-x64-android and qt-enterprise-linux-x64-qnx? Or is there a licensing-related issue around that? And why do we need different packages based on the license, anyways?
>
>> On Dec 20, 2016, at 9:28 PM, Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I finally managed to do testing how big combined windows installer would be. I was a bit surprised that it is only ~3.3 GB, which is still smaller than combined mac-android-ios installer ;) Ok, this is done from 5.8 packages & binaries so situation might be a bit different in 5.9 where we will have some new binaries to be done. But in the other hand we will/should drop some so I think the size of combined one should be still manageable.
>>
>> So I propose we will offer following set of offline installers from Qt 5.9 ->
>>
>> - For linux we will have 3 installers (instead of existing 5):
>>    * qt-enterprise-linux-x64-android  (already delivering this)
>>    * qt-opensource-linux-x64-android (already delivering this)
>>       ** Desktop gcc 64-bit
>>       ** Android x86
>>       ** Android armv7
>>    * qt-enterprise-linux-x64-qnx (already delivering this)
>>       ** Desktop gcc 64-bit
>>       ** Qnx x86
>>       ** Qnx armv7
>>       ** NOTE: I don't think we can offer QNX 7 binaries yet so QNX 6 binaries will be offered like 5.8.0
>>
>> - For mac we will have 2 installers (instead of existing 6):
>>    * qt-enterprise-mac-x64-android-ios (already delivering this)
>>    * qt-opensource-mac-x64-android-ios (already delivering this)
>>       ** Desktop clang 64-bit
>>       ** Android x86
>>       ** Android armv7
>>       ** iOS
>>
>> - For windows we will have 3 installers (instead of existing 17):
>>    * qt-enterprise-windows-x86 (new)
>>    * qt-opensource-windows-x86 (new)
>>       ** Desktop MSVC 2013 x64
>>       ** Desktop MSVC 2015 x86
>>       ** Desktop MSVC 2015 x64
>>       ** Desktop MSVC 2017 x64
>>       ** Desktop MinGW 5.3 x86
>>       ** UWP MSVC 2015 x86
>>       ** UWP MSVC 2015 x64
>>       ** UWP MSVC 2015 armv7
>>       ** UWP MSVC 2017 x86
>>       ** UWP MSVC 2017 x64
>>       ** UWP MSVC 2017 armv7
>>       ** Android x86
>>       ** Android armv7
>>   * qt-enterprise-linux-x64-qnx (already delivering this)
>>       ** Desktop MinGW 5.3 x86
>>       ** Qnx x86
>>       ** Qnx armv7
>>       ** NOTE: I don't think we can offer QNX 7 binaries yet so QNX 6 binaries will be offered like 5.8.0
>> br,
>> Jani
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Development <development-bounces+jani.heikkinen=qt.io at qt-project.org> on behalf of Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 5:05 PM
>> To: development at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt 5.9
>>
>> On quarta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2016 07:53:40 PST Jake Petroules wrote:
>>> How about we have one package per host platform which includes all possible
>>> hosts and targets compatible with it? Then we have 3 packages, ever.
>> Or, at least, one binary per platform + compiler combination. So that's 1
>> Linux package, 1 macOS package, 3 Windows packages today, with a 4th Windows
>> (MSVC 2017) coming for 5.9.
>>
>> --
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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