[Interest] [Development] Setup CI service

[Ben Lau]

On 27 January 2016 at 18:18, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com> wrote:

> (moving this from development@ to interest@)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Lau [mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:14 AM
> > To: Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com>
> > Cc: development at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Development] Setup CI service
> >
> >
> >
> > On 27 January 2016 at 18:09, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com
> > <mailto:Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >       > -----Original Message-----
> >       > From: Ben Lau [mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com
> > <mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com> ]
> >       > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 10:57 AM
> >       > To: Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com
> > <mailto:Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com> >
> >       > Cc: development at qt-project.org <mailto:development at qt-
> > project.org>
> >       > Subject: Re: [Development] Setup CI service
> >       >
> >       >
> >       >
> >       > On 27 January 2016 at 16:12, Koehne Kai
> > <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com
> > <mailto:Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com>
> >       > <mailto:Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com
> > <mailto:Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com> > > wrote:
> >       >
> >       >
> >       >
> >       >
> >       >       > -----Original Message-----
> >       >       > From: Ben Lau [mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com
> > <mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com>
> >       > <mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com <mailto:xbenlau at gmail.com> > ]
> >       >       >[...]
> >       >       > 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).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
>

In fact, I think it should be on development mailing list becoz of the
"chicken and egg" problem.

Anyway, I think your example just show how to pack custom installer , but
not asking an existing installer (e.g official offline installer from qt.io)
to run. Am I correct?
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