[Development] Qt 5.9

[Alexander Nassian]

Installing additional versions is broken and, more annoyingly (but I personally only have limited need for that) using the online installer behind a proxy is also broken (can't download meta).

Beste Grüße / Best regards,
Alexander Nassian

> Am 29.11.2016 um 18:22 schrieb Jake Petroules <Jake.Petroules at qt.io>:
> 
> 
>> On Nov 29, 2016, at 2:54 AM, Marco Piccolino <marco.a.piccolino at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> We just had a little discussion about this on QtMob (http://slackin.qtmob.org) where everybody does iOS/Android, and most people do it on a macOS host.
>> It looks like people tend to use the online installer.
>> When it comes to the offline installers (which in our case are mainly used for checking out betas, it seems) an installer for each platform seems to be the preferred option.
>> This said, it seems that the main concern for our mobile devs is actually the size of the Qt for iOS distribution per se and people would like to have the option to not install simulator builds.
> 
> I guarantee you we'll never do that while qmake remains the Qt build system. But in Qt 5.9 when Qt is built as shared libraries for iOS, a lot of the excess size should be moved out into external dSYM (debug symbol) files which can be made an optional component in the online installer.
> 
> Also, 32-bit iOS is not long for this world, so we may be able to halve the size within the next few years when Apple removes all  32-bit support (even for applications) from iOS.
> 
>> Br,
>> Marco Piccolino - QtMob community manager
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