[Interest] [Development] Setup CI service

Koehne Kai Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com
Wed Jan 27 11:18:06 CET 2016


(moving this from development@ to interest@)

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> On 27 January 2016 at 18:09, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com
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> 	> On 27 January 2016 at 16:12, Koehne Kai
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> 	>       > -----Original Message-----
> 	>       > From: Ben Lau [mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com
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> 	>       > Hi Kai,
> 	>       >
> 	>       > I mean the official Qt offline installer (Linux) downloaded
> from
> 	>       > https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.5/
> 	>       >
> 	>       > Before Qt 5.5, it could be run in command line environment
> and
> 	> extract its
> 	>       > content by " --dump-binary-data". But this options has been
> 	> dropped.
> 	>
> 	>       It got moved to an extra executable called 'devtool'.  You can
> still
> 	> use it
> 	>       by getting the IFW itself, e.g. from
> 	>       http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt-installer-
> 	> framework/2.0.1/ ,
> 	>       and launching devtool with the installer as an argument.
> 	>
> 	> But how can I install devtool in command line environment?
> 
> 	This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem indeed (that is, if you
> really want to start with a completely clean slate. The devtools version
> doesn't have to necessarily match exactly the installer version).
> 
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> 
> 
> That is the exact problem. I think it need to have a command line installable
> ifw to get started . (e.g a PPA in Ubuntu)
> 
> 
> 
> 	>       Anyhow, also the installer itself can be scripted & execute
> 	> automatically.
> 	>
> 	> Any example?
> 
> 	http://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/qt-installer-framework-
> quitinstaller-example.html
> 
> 	(Note though that the Qt Account page isn't part of this example,
> since it's not part of the general IFW. But I guess you can just add another
> "Next" for this page ...)
> 
> 
> 
> A bit confused. That is the instruction to build a installer or manipulate an
> existing installer?

Sorry, my fault. The example I meant was at 

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/113141/

But it never got integrated :( Still, it should work.

Regards

Kai


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