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

[Paul England]

Cheers to everyone for their comments.
I think Nikos is going to with w/ the macdeployqt.  That sounds about as
easy as it gets.

The project is quite small, so no installer necessary.  I've got a Mac
but honestly, I only use it
to do Linux work on the road, watch videos in bed, and a few music
things.  95% of the time
I'm on my Linux box.

>>A pollitically correct open source app that only runs on Windows and
Mac! that's unpossible ;-)

Yeah, it's weird, I know.   It will run on Linux, but I can't imagine
anyone doing it.

Thanks again
Paul




Nikos wrote:

Qt comes with its own tool: macdeployqt:

   macdeployqt YourApplication.app -dmg

this will generate YouApplication.dmg.  You then distribute that.



On 08/02/2010 12:03 PM, Ross Bencina wrote:
> Hi Paul
>  
> A pollitically correct open source app that only runs on Windows and
> Mac! that's unpossible ;-)
>  
>  
> On Mac there are two common options:
>  
> 1. A DMG with the app bundle in it and a shortcut to the Applications
> folder with a background screen suggesting the user drag the app
> bundle to their applications folder. A variant is to have a folder
> containing the app bundle and related stuff (which is what we do, you
> can check out our dmg at http://www.audiomulch.com/download.htm).
> There are graphical apps to generate installer DMGs like this. We
> developed an in-house script, but it was not easy to automate everything.
>  
> 2. A package installer made with Apple's tool as Thiago suggested or
> some 3rd party tool (I think there are more reliable options than
> Apple's, someone else can probably recommend one).
>  
> I think the current Apple "recommended" way is option (2) an
> installer, but I'm not sure.
>  
>  
> On Windows I recommend making an installer exe with inno setup, it's free:
> http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
> and it will give your users a start menu item and an uninstall option.
> You can easily run it from the command line, which is handy for
> automated builds.
>  
>  
> By the way, you'll also need to look into bundling Qt dlls or
> frameworks. On Mac Qt bundles a script for this, see:
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/deployment-mac.html
>  
> On Windows you have to decide how to ship/bundle Qt dlls (or not).
>  
>  
> HTH
>  
> Ross
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Paul England <mailto:pengland at cmt-asia.com>
>     *To:* qt-interest at trolltech.com <mailto:qt-interest at trolltech.com>
>     *Sent:* Monday, August 02, 2010 1:59 AM
>     *Subject:* [Qt-interest] Politically Correct way to release an
>     Open Source QtProject
>
>     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?
>
>     Cheers
>
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