[Releasing] First attempt at testing the Windows binary installer

Tue Jun 5 14:03:43 CEST 2012

Good observations,we are working on these items.

>  Item 16 below is the most worrying item found so far.

 > 16. After Finishing the instllation, I could not find any Start Menu 
shortcuts relating to the Qt package.

This is because it's not implemented/added into install phase scripts yet.

- iikka

On 06/05/2012 12:39 PM, jason.mcdonald at nokia.com wrote:
> Note, so far I have only tested the installer itself, not the Qt version installed by it.  Item 16 below is the most worrying item found so far.
>
> Tested installer: http://releases.qt-project.org/qt5.0/beta-snapshots/2012-06-04_19-47-13/Qt-5.0-beta-offline-win-x86_msvc2010.exe
> Test platform: Windows 7 Enterprise, Service Pack 1, 64bit
>
> Testing clean installation:
>
> 1. When the installer is launched, Windows shows a warning message stating that the publisher of the package could not be verified.  Presumably this indicates a problem with signing of the package.  Do the new scripts sign the package with signtool like the old script did?
>
> 2. The first page of the installer wizard says "Setup - Qt SDK\nWelcome to the Qt SDK Setup Wizard".  I'm presuming this is supposed to be a stand-alone Qt binary package rather than an SDK.
>
> 3. On the second page of the installer wizard, the default install directory also mentions "QtSDK," where I'd expect "Qt 5.0.0".
>
> 4. The default install path is C:\users\<username>\QtSDK.  For Qt 4 we defaulted to C:\Qt\<version>,  Is this a deliberate change? Do we now require each user of a multi-user system to install Qt for their own user rather than allowing one user to install a copy of Qt for all users to use?
>
> 5. On the third page of the installer wizard, no components are selected by default, so every user needs to make decisions here. It might be better to default to something that will work for a new user who doesn't know what components to choose.  Also, the Default button deselects all components - an installer that installs nothing by default is not very useful.
>
> 6. On the third page of the installer wizard, the top-level component is called "Qt Installer", and there's no further explanation of what it means.  It would probably be better to call this "Qt 5.0.0", or hide it.
>
> 7. On the third page of the installer wizard, the text beside the component tree just repeats the label of the currently selected component, which is not useful (until the component is ticked, when the size of the component is shown).  There should be a more verbose explanation here (what the component is and why you might want to install it), or the text should be removed so that the tree has more space.  The component sizes should be shown in the tree itself so that users don't have to tick a component to see how big it is.
>
> 8. On the third page of the installer wizard, the tooltips just repeat the label of the component that is under the mouse, which is not useful unless the text under the mouse is elided.
>
> 9. On the third page of the installer wizard, clicking "Deselect All" leaves the "Select All" and "Default" buttons disabled.
>
> 10. On the third page of the installer wizard, the tree of components is confusing.  It seems that the only installable components are the source files and the binary files, yet the fully expanded tree has six nodes.
>
> 11. On the fifth page of the installer wizard, the list of components displayed by clicking "Show Details" is not meaningful to a user.  This display should use the same human-readable labels as the third page of the wizard.
>
> 12. On the fifth page of the installer wizard, if you click Show Details, then click Install, the details get hidden and you need to click Show Details a second time.
>
> 13. The progress shown while installing is not useful, as it only ever shows values of 34%, 83% and 100% (when all components were selected for installation).  If installing only sources, the progress bar starts at 66%.
>
> 14. The Show Details box does not get a horizontal scrollbar when the text is too wide to fit.
>
> 15. After installation finishes you need to click Next, which takes you to another page where all you can do is click Finish, which seems a little pointless. Was this final page intended to have some shortcuts to docs or demos like the Qt 4 installer did?
>
> 16. After Finishing the instllation, I could not find any Start Menu shortcuts relating to the Qt package.
>
> Post Install:
>
> 17. In Control Panel>  Programs and Features, the product version is shown as 1.0.0 instead of 5.0.0.
>
> Testing repeat installation:
>
> 18. When running the installer a second time, the default Start Menu group is the same as for the first installation, which i presume will attempt to overwrite the existing items from the first install run, though I can't be sure due to item 16 above.
>
> 19. After installing the package in three different directories, the Control Panel>  Programs and Features dialog shows QtSDK only once.  The instance shown appears to be the last installation (deduced because I installed different components each time).
>
> 20. It is possible to install only the sources component, which seems a little contrary to the goals of a binary package.
>
> Uninstallation/Update:
>
> 21. In Control Panel>  Programs and Features, right click on QtSDK and select "Change".  In the resulting Wizard, select Package Manager and on the next page click "Deselect All"m then next -- the installer lets you uninstall all components, but does treat the whole package as being uninstalled.
>
> 22. After the steps in 20, the last page of the wizard has a "Restart" button. Click it, then select "Package Manager" and click next.  The wizard now thinks its an online installer and give an error "Invalid repository URL:\nhttp:/qt5repository/windows/x32/online_qt5sdk_repo.".  This URL is invalid (there should be two slashes after the colon), but the installer shouldn't have revert5ed to online in the first place.
>
> 23. After uninstalling the most recent install, the QtSDK disappears from Control Panel>  Programs and Features, so the earlier instances cannot be uninstalled via control panel -- you have to go to the instllation directory and manually launch SDKMaintenanceTool.exe.
>
> 24. Clicking "Update components" always gives the same error message as in 22 above.
>
> 25. The Progress bar shown for uninstallation is not useful.  Starts at 33% and stays there until jumping to 100% when uninstallation is complete.
>
> Other observations:
>
> 26. In the package directory, package naming appears a little inconsistent.  Source packages don't mention beta in the filename and binary packages start with "Q" while source pacakges start with "q".
>
> --
> Jason
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