[Development] Installer/Marketplace/Package Manager

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Hi,

referring to

> https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6-additional-libraries-via-package-manager

it looks like that the situation regarding Qt binary packaging and 
distribution around the time 6.0 will be shipped will look like this:


1) Binary (*) Qt Essentials from the installer, OSS+Comm
    - QtCore, QtWidgets, QtQML, etc.

2) Binary (*) Qt Addons from the installer, OSS+Comm
    - QtSQL, QtQuick3D, etc.

3) Binary (*) extras from the installer, OSS+Comm
    - QtCreator, MinGW, OpenSSL, CMake, etc.

4) Source and/or binary Qt Addons from the Marketplace, OSS+Comm
    - QtPDF, QtCharts, etc.

4a) Non-software products from the Marketplace
    - E.g. TQC Trainings

5) Source Qt Addons from the Package Manager, OSS(+Comm?)
    - Qt3D, QtImageFormats
    - to be built manually


(*) One can install the source, but they're for debugging, one doesn't 
build them

Am I getting the complete picture? And am I the only one who finds this 
extremely confusing? How is the decision regarding what-goes-where made?


Thanks,

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Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.com
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