[Releasing] Current installer issues

[Turunen Tuukka]

Hi Jason,

I think that the main issue we need to fix for beta is getting Qt 5 to build correctly (all items working and things in the right place). There are some things that we should fix also for the installers, but many of these can wait until beta 2 or RC.

For the installer related items you listed below – what do you see as critical for the Beta 1?

Yours,

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Tuukka Turunen
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From: "jason.mcdonald at nokia.com<mailto:jason.mcdonald at nokia.com>" <jason.mcdonald at nokia.com<mailto:jason.mcdonald at nokia.com>>
Date: tiistaina 10. heinäkuuta 2012 6.17
To: "releasing at qt-project.org<mailto:releasing at qt-project.org>" <releasing at qt-project.org<mailto: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- docs link to out-of-date online pages on Creator, QtSDK and Qt Simulator (symbian)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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