[Qt-creator] QtCreator 4.1 "Installer"?

[Eike Ziller]

> On Jul 6, 2016, at 19:47, Jake Petroules <Jake.Petroules at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> I agree this is a -1. Is this something we're just doing for the beta and the final should be correctly shipped as a drag n drop dmg?
> 
>> On Jul 6, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Out of curiosity why was there a switch from a "Drag-n-Drop" installation of QtCreator to an actual "installer" that I have to run?
>> 
>> I would like to put a "-1" vote for the installer? Was there really a need for it? And where all is stuff being installed? I tend to use the nightlies which as a Drag-n-Drop install was easy to update on a daily basis and have multiple versions available at any one time.

This is the result of consolidating how we build Qt Creator standalone and the diverse Qt packages.
So far we had completely different setups for Qt Creator standalone and Qt packages, and it is far from optimal or even good.
In any case, for running the opensource content Qt Creator does not require an installer on any platform, and you can just go ahead and unpack the sevenzips located in the “installer_source” sub-directories for the platform, e.g.
https://download.qt.io/development_releases/qtcreator/4.1/4.1.0-beta1/installer_source/mac_x64/
(on other than macOS, you should be aware that these do not contain any “qt-creator” subdirectory, and directly contain “bin/“, “lib/“, etc directories).

Br, Eike

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