[Qt4-preview-feedback] Mac packaging

[Trenton Schulz]

On 2009-03-16 14:32:40 +0100, Timothy Reaves 
<treaves at silverfieldstech.com> said:

> 
> 
> 	Well, the installer does a nice job of insuring everything is in the
> correct place.  Frameworks, sample code, apps.  When I build from
> source, and run qmake install, it all does to the single /usr/local
> directory.  Then things have to be manually moved around.  This is
> messy and error prone.

Can't you write a script for that? ;-)

>   I'd like to insure that all the files go to
> where they are needed.  As I test on PPC & Intel, it also means
> doubling the work to try to get a clean install.
> 
> 	I understand the script could be messy.  But I'm willing to live with
> that, and try and improve it.

I also realized that it refrences items for checking license keys which 
we can't put out.

But, if you want to move things around, you can always download the 
disk image and look at the .pkg's bill of materials (BOM) and use that 
as your guide. e.g.

lsbom "/Volumes/Qt 4.5.0/packages/Qt_libraries.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom"

You have to do some scrubbing of some paths too, but that's included in 
the postflight script for the packages.

Anyway, it may someday come out, but it's not a priority at the moment.

Have a nice day,

-- Trenton