[Development] How to perform unattended installations of Qt? (Was: Changes to Qt offering)

[Mark De Wit]

> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Sze
> Howe Koh
> 
> Another use case: Mass deployment to multiple PCs:
> https://forum.qt.io/topic/111587/classroom-deployment-of-qt-for-multiple-
> pcs-and-for-all-users-windows
> 

This mass-deployment is the use case that concerns me most of all.   I have 45 developers and numerous build agents who should all have Qt installed to build our software, but at best 3 have actually used Qt / done Qt UI work.

And now I'm the bad guy because I enabled the adoption of Qt.

(sure, I can manually unzip Qt on all machines, and whilst I'm there I can just configure the Visual Studio plugin for Qt too...)

Mark

> 
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe
> 
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 at 07:06, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 at 04:19, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:31:34 PST Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 03:52:49 PST Tino Pyssysalo wrote:
> > > > > It is also possible to transfer the qtaccount.ini file to a CI
> > > > > machine, which removes the need for manual/interactive login.
> > > > > The qtaccount.ini just contains the hash of the password.
> > > >
> > > > I suggest you be very careful in suggesting how to transfer the
> > > > qtaccount.ini file. Test half a dozen public CI systems and give
> > > > instructions to them all.
> > > >
> > > > And specifically tell people NOT to "git add" it to a project on
> > > > GitHub/ GitLab/BitBucket.
> > >
> > > Hello Tino
> > >
> > > Can we get an answer here?
> > >
> > > What is the recommended way to install Qt on a CI to test a Qt-based
> > > application?
> > >
> > > Travis CI has stopped working completely and I'd like to switch to
> > > GitHub Actions. Does The Qt Company recommend I use Stephan Binner's
> > > PPA? Or does it want me to use its own compiled binaries? If the
> > > latter, please provide instructions for automated builds.
> >
> > Hello Tino,
> >
> > It's not just CI; Qt now can't be easily used with all other
> > automation technologies like Docker. [1]
> >
> > Please note that users have started to suggest workarounds such as
> > creating throwaway Qt accounts in order to automate the installation.
> > [2]
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sze-Howe
> >
> > [1] https://forum.qt.io/post/577886
> > [2] https://forum.qt.io/post/577926
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