[Qt-creator] Packaging && Deployment for Maemo

[Jeffery MacEachern]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 00:02, Christian Kandeler
<christian.kandeler at nokia.com> wrote:
> 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.

Excellent - I shall have to poke at Master, then.

>> 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.

I understand.  I was intending the question more for the community at
large; I figured it wouldn't be a priority for Nokia, but that someone
might be interested in hacking on it at some level.

>
> Christian
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Thanks,
 - Jeffery MacEachern