[Qt-creator] Creating Tarballs

[Coda Highland]

qmake has support for such things via "make dist." Check the DISTFILES variable.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> one task that is quite tiresome and requires work by hand when developing
> small projects is the creation of tarballs.
> I was thinking about how to facilitate this task and one way would be to
> take advantage of IDEs such as Creator.
> Since it already integrates with SCM and the sources, why not use it to
> (half) automatically create tarballs.
> I'd love to hear some input on how feasible this would be and where to
> start.
> My current idea would be to write a plugin, that tries to checkout sources
> cleanly from the version control used,
> or tries to grab the available sources and then gives the user the option to
> add/remove additional files.
> Once this is done, the result can be compressed.
>
> Cheers
> Frederik
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