[Releasing] Current installer issues

[jason.mcdonald at nokia.com]

The latest linux package from Digia is a little better than the one from Jenkins -- it isn't missing binaries for assistant, designer, etc, and it has examples for qtbase, qtsvg and qtxmlpatterns.

We need to figure out why the two systems aren't producing identical packages.

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Jason

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From: releasing-bounces+jason.mcdonald=nokia.com at qt-project.org [releasing-bounces+jason.mcdonald=nokia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of Mcdonald Jason (Nokia-MP/Brisbane)
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 1:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [Releasing] Current installer issues

These were the packages from Jenkins, not the Digia ones.

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From: releasing-bounces+jason.mcdonald=nokia.com at qt-project.org [releasing-bounces+jason.mcdonald=nokia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of Mcdonald Jason (Nokia-MP/Brisbane)
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 1:17 PM
To: releasing at qt-project.org
Subject: [Releasing] Current installer issues

Windows (tested on Windows 7 x64 SP1):
- beta should be beta1 in default directory and start menu group
- readme is about building Qt, which is more appropriate for a source package
- installer is slow to generate -- always 2-3 builds behind
- still doesn't have msvc redist (in the works?)
- uninstall shortcut is missing from Start Menu
- only has examples for qtbase and activeqt
- package name should include msvc2010 to differentiate it from mingw package when we start building one.

Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit (tested on clean vbox VM):
- seems to depends on wrong version of libicui18n.so.42 (should be version 48 for ubuntu 12.04 and 44 for 11.10)
- beta should be beta1 in default install dir
- readme is about building Qt, which is more appropriate for a source package
- some binaries are missing from bin directory: qmlviewer, assistant, designer, linguist
- docs have broken links to QML items
- docs link to out-of-date online pages on Creator, QtSDK and Qt Simulator (symbian)
- only has examples for qtbase
- xcb README is wrong about needing to manually install libs on Ubuntu 12.04 (fix in gerrit)

Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit (tested on clean vbox VM):
- same as 64-bit package.

Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit (tested on clean vbox VM):
- same as 12.04 package.

Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit (tested on clean vbox VM):
- same as 12.04 package.


Missing contents in packages suggest that some modules are failing to compile.  The build scripts do not appear to die on build errors.  This is dangerous as it would be very easy to accidentally release a package with bits missing if the package build doesn't bail out on serious errors.

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Jason
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