[Qt-interest] Politically Correct way to release an Open Source Qt Project

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday 1. August 2010 12.59.54 Paul England wrote:
> Okay, this is semi-OT, but I think this is the best place to ask it.
> 
> I've got an open-source project that is near the first release, and am
> about to upload it to sourceforge.  It will really only be run on a Mac
> or Windows machine, as it's an "assistant" type of application for an
> app that only runs on those two platforms. My project  run on Linux, but
> I doubt anyone other than me will really care.
> 
> So, the source all tar'ed up is a given, but for the Mac binary, what's
> the standard practice?  After I compile it can I just zip the
> myapplication.app file upload that?  This is actually the first time
> I've compiled/ran a Qt app on the Mac so I'm a bit lost.  I have an old
> XP box lying around here and have the latest Qt on it.  I assume
> compiling a Win32 executable will suffice for all Win users?

On Mac, you'd package using the packager app that comes with XCode and release 
it as a .dmg that users can download and install, I think.

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