[Development] A deployment tool for Linux

[Mitch Curtis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:23 AM
> To: development at qt-project.org; Khuram Ali <khuram.ali at aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Development] A deployment tool for Linux
> 
> Handily, there has been a concerted effort to create linuxdeploy, which is a
> pluginified and much cleaned up version of linuxdeployqt :)
> https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy

Great! I created a suggestion there:

https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy/issues/73

Though I'm honestly not sure what the practical differences between these two are, especially for the average user who just wants to simply deploy their application. I've only used linuxdeployqt myself.

> On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 10:15:27 BST Khuram Ali via Development
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I think, it is a good idea to have an official deployment tool as we
> > have for windows. linuxdeployqt works but as mentioned earlier slower
> and older.
> > The things can get a bit better.  Regards,Khuram Ali
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
> > Von: Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io>
> > An: Bogdan Vatra <bogdan.vatra at kdab.com>; development at qt-
> project.org
> > <development at qt-project.org> Verschickt: Mi, 10. Apr. 2019 10:27
> > Betreff: Re: [Development] A deployment tool for Linux
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bogdan Vatra <bogdan.vatra at kdab.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2019 10:22 AM
> > > To: development at qt-project.org
> > > Cc: Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io>
> > > Subject: Re: [Development] A deployment tool for Linux
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  Personally I think it's a great idea. I used linuxdeployqt myself
> > > and it
> > >
> > > worked. The only problem I saw it was the speed, it takes quite a
> > > lot to complete (e.g. it took a few minutes, while androiddelopqt
> > > takes less than
> > > 10 seconds). But witl some love I'm pretty sure it can be improved a lot.
> > Yeah I noticed that too.. thought it was a bit odd considering that
> > file operations are usually very quick compared to Windows, whereas
> > windeployqt is actually faster.
> > > Cheers,
> > > BogDan.
> > >
> > > În ziua de miercuri, 10 aprilie 2019, la 11:13:01 EEST, Mitch Curtis
> > > a
> scris:
> > > > What do people think about having a deployment tool for Linux?
> > > > There is an existing community tool based on macdeployqt:
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/
> > > >
> > > > The author has considered the idea in the past:
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/issues/84
> > > >
> > > > A Jira suggestion to track it:
> > > >
> > > > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74940
> > > >
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