[Releasing] Testing and verification of Alpha package

[casper.vandonderen at nokia.com]

Hi,

It would be great to have packages per module/repository. Please be aware however that it is currently not possible to build documentation on a per-module/repository basis. The "make docs" command is only available in qtdoc and depends on qhelpgenerator which is in qttools. ("make online_docs" in qtdoc only needs qdoc which is now in qtbase)


Casper
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From: releasing-bounces+casper.vandonderen=nokia.com at qt-project.org [releasing-bounces+casper.vandonderen=nokia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of ext Carsten Munk [carsten.munk at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:05 PM
To: releasing at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Releasing] Testing and verification of Alpha package

14. mar. 2012 19.42 skrev  <marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com>:
> Hi guys,
>
> We are closing in on the alpha release, and it's time for maintainers and
> others willing to help out to download and verify that the package contents
> is good and ready for the release.
>
>
> http://releases.qt-project.org/alpha/20120314/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0.tar.gz
> (219MB)
> or
>
> http://releases.qt-project.org/alpha/20120314/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0.zip
> (255MB)
>
> Please report back on this public mailing list any and all problems you find
> with the package, and maintainers please focus your efforts on the component
> you are responsible for, and validate that it works as intended on the
> primary target platforms.
Hi,

There has been a lot of time spent on making qt modular, partly
because of distributions wanting to more sanely package Qt, to my
knowledge.

Isn't it a bit of a regression to just provide one huge tarball in
this case? It would be much more useful to provide qtbase,
qtjsbackend, qtdeclarative seperately as tarballs so these can be
packaged individually?

In addition to that, isn't the -5.0.0 versioning a bit misleading when
this is just an alpha?

BR
Carsten Munk
Mer project architect

> Note that this release primarily targets
>
> Linux/XCB
> Windows 7 (MSVC 2008/2010, MinGW)
> OSX (10.6, 10.7)
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> .marius
>
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