[Development] Setup CI service

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Lau [mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 10:57 AM
> To: Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com>
> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Setup CI service
> 
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> On 27 January 2016 at 16:12, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com
> <mailto:Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com> > wrote:
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> 
> 	> -----Original Message-----
> 	> From: Ben Lau [mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com
> <mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com> ]
> 	>[...]
> 	> Hi Kai,
> 	>
> 	> I mean the official Qt offline installer (Linux) downloaded from
> 	> https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.5/
> 	>
> 	> Before Qt 5.5, it could be run in command line environment and
> extract its
> 	> content by " --dump-binary-data". But this options has been
> dropped.
> 
> 	It got moved to an extra executable called 'devtool'.  You can still
> use it
> 	by getting the IFW itself, e.g. from
> 	http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt-installer-
> framework/2.0.1/ ,
> 	and launching devtool with the installer as an argument. 
> 
> But how can I install devtool in command line environment?

This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem indeed (that is, if you really want to start with a completely clean slate. The devtools version doesn't have to necessarily match exactly the installer version). 

> 	Anyhow, also the installer itself can be scripted & execute
> automatically.
>
> Any example?

http://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/qt-installer-framework-quitinstaller-example.html

(Note though that the Qt Account page isn't part of this example, since it's not part of the general IFW. But I guess you can just add another "Next" for this page ...)

Regards

Kai

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