[Releasing] First attempt at testing the Windows binary installer

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 6/6/12 2:13 PM, "ext jason.mcdonald at nokia.com"
<jason.mcdonald at nokia.com> wrote:

>Comparing behaviour a bit more carefully between 5.0 and Qt 4.x raises a
>few questions:
>
>1. The 4.x installer has a page wher it asks the user to agree to the
>LGPL.  The new 5.x installer doesn't have this page.  Has that change
>been clearred with Qt Project Legal folks?

I think we still need to display the license page.

>2. The 4.x installer installs html docs, while the 5.x installer does
>not.  Should the 5.x packages have pre-built html docs too? If not,
>should assistant still be shipped? If not, what happens to apps that use
>assistant for their online help, e.g. designer and linguist?

Docs should be there. It's a big part of the value of the Qt packages.

>3. The README in 5.x source packages tells users they should use the
>"build" script shipped with the packages.  It appears that the binary
>pacakges are not built using that "build" script, which leaves the nasty
>possibility that the "build" script does not get tested before a release,
>and/or that a Qt built with it is different to the Qt in the binary
>installers.

Actually I'm not sure the build script works correctly currently. Would be
good if we can somehow use the same solution, but I don't think that's
doable for the beta.
>
>4. As well as for 5.0, Windows 7 also says the publisher cannot be
>verified for Qt 4.7 packages published by Nokia. The 4.8 packages
>published by Digia, show the publisher as Digia Plc, so obviously someone
>at Digia knows how to get packages signed in a manner that Windows 7
>considers satisfactory, and we should do the same for 5.x packages.
>Should the OSS packages be signed as Digia or Nokia or Qt Project?

Ideally Qt Project, but I don't know whether that's possible.

Cheers,
Lars

>
>--
>Jason
>
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>[releasing-bounces+jason.mcdonald=nokia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of
>Mcdonald Jason (Nokia-MP/Brisbane)
>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 6:27 PM
>To: releasing at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Releasing] First attempt at testing the Windows binary
>installer
>
>This time looking at the files that got installed.  Due to the lack of
>start menu shortcuts, I resorted to browsing the installed directory tree
>and trying to launch various binaries directly.
>
>It should be noted that in lieu of any requirements to test against, I
>have been testing based on my knowledge of the Qt 4.7 and earlier binary
>packages (for which I maintained packaging scripts many moons ago).
>
>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
>
>Assistant: Fails to launch, instead displaying an "assistant has stopped
>working" dialog.  Crash dump file available on request.  Same happens
>when Assistant is launched from the Help menu of other apps (e.g. first
>three help menu items in Designer).
>
>Designer: Works
>
>Linguist: Partly works
>
>- Select Help > What's New, then click on one of hte toolbar buttons. Now
>try to select another menu item, Linguist crashes (Windows displays a "Qt
>Linguist has stopped working" dialog, but does not appewar to generate a
>crash dump file).
>
>- When launched Linguist displays a splash screen but it disappears
>before it is possible to read it.
>
>QML Demos (launched via bin/qmlscene.exe): Works
>
>QML Demos (launched via bin/qmlviewer.exe): Fails. After opening some
>.qml files, QML Viewer just shows a blank white window.
>
>Examples and Demos:
>
>- These cannot be launched directly from Windows Explorer because they
>cannot find the Qt DLL's.  (Typical error: "The program can't start
>because QtWidgetsd5.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling
>the program to fix this problem."
>
>- Running examples from a command prompt where the installed bin
>directory has been added to %PATH% works.
>
>- the structure of the examples directory seems a bit broken.  Some of it
>is like Qt 4 with examples directly under the examples directory, e.g.
>examples/animation, but some is in module direcxtories, e.g.
>examples\qtdeclarative/calculator.  Some of the folders under module
>directories contain duplicates of the examples that are outside module
>directories, e.g. the .exe for animatedtiles is in both
>examples/animation and examples/qtbase/animation.
>
>
>ActiveQt examples: Ok
>
>Animation examples: Ok
>
>Declarative examples:
>
>- Some declarative examples still "import QtQuick 1.0" and therefore
>don't run under qmlscene.exe.
>
>- Many declarative examples are in Src but not in Desktop, e.g. samegame.
> (Is the pacakge's Desktop tree the product of "make install"?)
>
>- In the installed tree, declarative examples are divided between
>examples/declarative and examples/qtdeclarative for no obvious reason.
>
>- calcalator demo fails on line "import content" with "no such file or
>directory".
>
>Dialogs demos: Ok
>
>Drag and drop demos: Ok
>
>Graphicsview demos: Ok, except portedasteroids and portedcanvas not built
>
>IPC demos: Ok
>
>Mainwindows demos: Ok
>
>Network demos: Ok, except bearercloud and securesocketclient not built
>
>OpenGL demos: Ok, except samplebuffers, which doesn't display anything
>
>Painting demos:
>
>- affine, deform, gradients and pathstroke demos assert if you click on
>the "Use OpenGL" button.  'ASSERT: "pd" in file painting/qpainter.cpp,
>line 1696'.
>
>- basicdrawing demo doesn't repaint when the shape drop-down is modified
>(maximize/restore forces it to repaint).
>
>- painterpaths demo doesn't repaint when either of the "Fill Gradient"
>drop downs are changed (maximize/restore forces it to repaint). Also, the
>last spinbox field displays a question-mark-inside-diamond symbol after
>the spinbox value (should be displaying degrees symbol).
>
>- transformation demo doesn't repaint when drop-downs are changed
>(maximize/restore forces repaint).
>
>SQL demos: Ok
>
>Statemachine demos: Ok
>
>Threads examples: Ok
>
>Tools examples:
>
>- completer example asserts if you select "Country List" and then type
>'a' in the lineedit.  'ASSERT failure in QVector<T>::operator[]: "index
>out of range".'
>
>Touch demos: not tested as I don't have multitouch input device
>
>Webkit demos: not built in package
>
>Widgets demos:
>
>- In the calculator demo, four of the buttons show a question mark inside
>a black diamond instead of the correct symbol. Perhaps some kind of font
>issue.
>
>- shapedclock demo shows black corners (I presume they should be
>transparent).
>
>Printing (from Chips demo): Works
>
>Other observations:
>
>- The lack of the old qtdemo launcher makes it much harder to see what
>demos are available, to find demos for a specific feature, to find docs
>for a demo, and to run demos (because you can't run them manually without
>setting the path to the Qt libs in the environment).  It would be great
>if we could get qtdemo working again, but i guess that won't happen in
>time for 5.0.0.
>
>- The "About Qt" dialog still refers to "Qt for Embedded Linux" and "Qt
>for Windows CE".  This probably needs to be updated.
>
>- The installed directory structure looks like the QtSDK, not a
>stand-alone Qt package.
>
>- The package installs duplicates of the Qt dll's in both bin and lib
>directories.
>
>- The installed pacakge does not appear to contain any html docs (only
>doc sources).
>
>- The installed directory tree contains a lot of "tmp" directories.
>
>- The installed files appear to be timestamped when installed.  Qt 4
>packages kept the source timestamps.
>
>- Checkboxes don't look right -- the tick only fills the top-left quarter
>of the box.  This may be caused by my font-size being set to 150%, but it
>still should paint properly.
>
>- The installed package has an empty include directory
>(C:\users\<username>\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\5.0.0\msvc2010\include). Should
>this have the forwarding headers to the src directory?  What if the user
>chose to install the "Desktop" component but not the "Src" component?
>
>--
>Jason
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