[Qt-creator] Packaging && Deployment for Maemo

[Christian Kandeler]

Hi,

> It's great to see the work done on improving the Maemo autopackager in
> the Qt Creator nightlies, especially as pertains to packaging
> libraries.

AFAIK, the nightly builds are the 2.1 branch. While there are 
improvements there as well, they are rather small compared to the work 
going on in the master branch.

 >  I have a question, though.  Currently, the Run feature
> still expects to be able to execute some specific program (which
> obviously won't exist in a library package), and thus fails to deploy
> library packages at all.  How is this planned to be handled in the
> future?  Simply fixing this issue would work, but ideally it would be
> nice if "deployment" wasn't tied as tightly to "running/debugging" a
> single app, since deployment/installation could then be handled more
> generically.

The master branch already has a "Deploy Project" action, which can exist 
without a run configuration.

> Also, on an aside, is there any interest in extending the autopackager
> plugin to produce packages for desktop platforms?  I would assume that
> for Debian-based systems, much of the current code might be
> applicable, at least.

Maemo is a platform with specific conventions, so we can make 
assumptions about the target device. For the desktop, the situation is 
much more complicated, because Creator is multi-platform: We can't 
provide a packaging feature just for Debian; we'd also have to support 
rpm-based Linux packages, Windows installers and whatever it is they use 
on Mac. Preferably supporting all kinds of cross compilers etc. You can 
add a suggestion in JIRA, but it probably won't get the highest priority.


Christian