[Interest] The willy-nilly deletion of convenience, methods (was: Mixing Commercial and Open...)

[Jason H]

> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 at 5:18 PM
> From: "Roland Hughes" <roland at logikalsolutions.com>
> To: "Jean-Michaël Celerier" <jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com>, "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>
> Cc: "interest" <interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] The willy-nilly deletion of convenience, methods (was: Mixing Commercial and Open...)
>
> 
> On 3/22/21 10:39 AM, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote:
> > > A debian package would go along way to introduce people to Qt there 
> > in the hobbyist sector, but it's a compile-it-for-yourself situation
> >
> > ?? 
> > http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/q/qtbase-opensource-src/ 
> > <http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/q/qtbase-opensource-src/>
> >
> > kind regards,
> > jm
> >
> >
> I __believe__ what Jason was talking about was a package for cross 
> compilation so that 12 year old kids could plug in a serial/usb cable 
> and assign a target for deploy. So people didn't have to endure stuff 
> like this:
> 
> https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/how-far-weve-come-pt-18/
> 
> and this
> 
> https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/raspberry-pi/raspberry-qt-part-8/

Pretty much.. or a 40 year old kid.  I searched all over and found one guy publishing builds on GitHub.. That's what I use.  Also, linuxdeployqt isn't official Qt, so I just always installed QtCreator (also packaged) and re built when moving an app to a new pi...