[Qt-creator] 2.6 freeze & call for testing

[eike.ziller at nokia.com]

On 24 Aug 2012, at 13:03, ext Thomas Meyer <public at meyer-thomas.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have downloaded and installed the version:
> qt-creator-windows-2.6.81-197-2012-08-24_11-09-32.7z
> 
> The jom.exe is missing, right?

Hm, at the moment yes. I wonder if that can be mended by just doing a "make deployartifacts" in addition, I'll have a look.

> I started a project and got this messages:
> ...
> 12:54:16: Starting: "jom.exe"
> qtcreator_ctrlc_stub: Command line failed: jom.exe
> 12:54:16: The process "jom.exe" crashed.
> ...
> 
> My system: MS Windows 7, Qt v.4.8.2 (32 bit)
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Am 24.08.2012 09:18, schrieb eike.ziller at nokia.com:
>> I've now done the final merge from master to 2.6, so we enter "regular" feature freeze for 2.6 now.
>> 
>> That said, and with the prospect of having a beta in 1 1/2 weeks, I want to ask you to test Qt Creator 2.6, and to create bug reports for the issues you find.
>> For binaries see the links below.
>> 
>> Areas that should receive most attention include
>> 
>> * everything that has to do with the new "Target" settings, such as
>>    - opening projects that have been created with Qt Creator 2.5, and checking if the imported settings make sense
>>    - edge (or not so edge) cases with no targets and/or Qt versions defined, unconfigured projects, targets that have settings that don't fit together etc
>> * debugging / attaching to running applications, debugging remote applications, and debugging in general
>> * support for developing Qt 5 applications, i.e. opening, running, debugging, editing (completion, symbol navigation etc)
>>    - NOTE: use a fresh + current Qt 5 for testing, do *not* use the Qt 5 alpha. A lot of things have changed in the meantime.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Eike
>> 
>> Qt Creator 2.6 snapshots can be found here (7zips for win/lin, dmg for mac):
>> 
>> http://builds.qt-project.org/view/Qt%20Creator/
>> 
>> 
>> It will take a few hours till the builds actually contain that last merge master>2.6.
>> 
>> For the mac builds look under "unix".
>> The windows build regularly fails for funny reasons, just take the artefacts of the last successful build.
>> 
>> 
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