[Interest] QMAKE_COPY not used anymore for files in INSTALLS. Workaround?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Sep 12 18:14:54 CEST 2018


On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 08:27:04 PDT Olivier B. wrote:
> - Make a renamed backup of the previous target file if it already exists on
> the network share, to avoid some issues (allow to overwrite the installed
> file on the network path, even if some people are currently using that file
> by running the project where it was installed)

This one shouldn't be needed anymore. The "qinstall" should do this for you by 
writing to a temporary file and then doing an atomic rename to clobber the old 
file.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center






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