[Development] Setup CI service

[Ben Lau]

On 27 January 2016 at 18:09, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com> wrote:

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>
> > -----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
> >
> >
> >
> > On 27 January 2016 at 16:12, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com
> > <mailto:Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >       > -----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).
>
>
That is the exact problem. I think it need to have a command line
installable ifw to get started . (e.g a PPA in Ubuntu)



> >       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 ...)
>

A bit confused. That is the instruction to build a installer or manipulate
an existing installer?


>
> Regards
>
> Kai
>
> PS: Feel free to move the thread to interest@
>
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