[Interest] Qt online installer: Linux ARM platform?

[Alexander Dyagilev]

1. In an ideal world, yes, I agree with you :) But, in this real world 
we have to deal with a lot of issues including Qt bugs. In case we do 
provide Qt binaries alongside with our app we provide our users the best 
possible experience. Before we made a release, we test our app with the 
specific Qt version to make sure all is working fine. In case of an 
update of Qt binaries, things can go wrong. And we have such examples in 
our practice. So we prefer to provide prebuilt Qt binaries alongside 
with our app.

2. I'm not a very experienced Unix developer. My primary platform was 
always Windows. I'm not sure if I even understood you 100% correctly.

   a) You mean we should to just compile our code using ARM compiler and 
let the system use the already installed Qt binaries ?

   b) But what about debugging then... It seems it's not supported in 
any way.


On 6/2/2023 8:30 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> The rule of thumb is to always use the Linux distro's packages if they exist,
> or build on the distro and use the distro's supporting libraries in "system"
> mode. Don't use the pre-built binaries for anything but testing. (This is an
> opinion and is not shared with most other Qt developers)
>