[Qt-interest] QMake and package creation for various target platforms

[grego]

Is meego packaging then going to be supported outside of qmake, for instance in qt Creator?

Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:

>On 05.08.10 13:17:44, Grego wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm wondering how to go about creating packages for various targets,
>> especially on how to include data files.
>> 
>> QMake variable reference has DEPLOYMENT, which is used for Windows CE
>> and Symbian,  DISTFILES seems to be similar but is used for unix only?
>>   How about Maemo/Meego?
>> 
>> I would have thought that any target platform that has a package
>> format, such as .sis, .deb or .rpm would use the same variable.
>> 
>> Any comments?
>
>QMake was never designed to do such packaging. Its been written as a pure
>build-tool. Apparently Nokia now wants to integrate some packaging so its
>easy for their Qt-users to put stuff on the phones. But especially linux
>distro packages usually require a bit of manual work that an automated tool
>cannot do (for non-trivial apps that is).
>
>Andreas
> 
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