[Development] Changes to Qt offering

Bogdan Vatra bogdan.vatra at kdab.com
Mon Feb 3 07:58:35 CET 2020


În ziua de duminică, 2 februarie 2020, la 13:14:13 EET, Ville Voutilainen a 
scris:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 18:11, Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer at qt.io> 
wrote:
> > I wonder where all this love for the Qt installer comes from. I personally
> > consider “sudo apt-get install -y qtcreator” or “brew install qt-creator”
> > or “choco install qtcreator" to be vastly superior to using the installer
> > UI, and very easily integrated in VM provisioning. Any energy spent on
> > making sure that the versions we get from those package repos is
> > up-to-date would be worth a lot more (to me) than building another
> > installer.
> Qt installer resumes downloads after a network connection break.
> apt-get does not. :)

  You must be kidding, apt it's (one of) the best package manager! It resumes 
the download(s) from the same point from where the connection dropped.

Cheers,
BogDan.




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