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

[Martin Hofius]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010 schrieb Daniel Price:
> > All this would off course be handled by "my" installer concept which
> > would be handled on the "OS level" ;)
>
> I simply don't think installers are a sound concept. They are a product of
> brittle system architectures and bad UIs from the 80s - they were necessary
> before GUIs were popular and a good GUI renders the concept obsolete for
> most cases (exceptions being system software installations). Users, even
> novice ones like to feel like they're in control of their PC and drag &
> drop is a very intuitive way to do that.
installers became really necessary  when applications began to replace 
numerous system shared libs. Windows Applications were more and more based on 
the latest ms*.dll 's , so every application had to inspect the version of 
each needed lib and to replace oder libs...

Of course this is not necessary if the systems libs are well designed and 
reliable, no application needs to replace it ;-)

Think about Qt shared libs: it is eaysy to copy each needed Qt lib into the 
application directory - no version conflict, no decision to replace older 
libs... But: ist this the goal of shared libraries?

Greetings
Martin