[Releasing] configure.exe in source packages for Qt 5.1

[Sergio Ahumada]

On 04/03/2013 04:40 PM, Sergio Ahumada wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There some discussions all over the place about having configure.exe in
> source packages.
>
> Some people would like to have source packages as close as the git
> repository as possible (so not manually adding configure.exe to source
> packages) and some others think that it's better to provide the
> executable rather than bootstrap it.
>
> Some JIRA tasks related to this are
>
> * https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-28743
>
>    - This is because today we just provide configure.exe in both the .zip
> and .7z source packages (naively hoping that windows user will read
> http://qt-project.org/downloads)
>
> * https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-26250
>
>    - This is why (as far as I understand) we are shipping configure.exe
> binary, we can't just bootstrap it if you try to get the help.
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/33983
>
> So the question is:
>
> Should we just document in the KnownIssues wiki page that "configure.bat
> --help" doesn't work and we don't provide a pre-built configure.exe in
> the source packages, OR should we just accept that source packages do
> not contain what's exactly in git.
>
> If we decide the latter, we need to also add configure.exe to .tar.gz
> and .tar.xz source packages.
>
> If there is no final decision by the time we start Qt 5.1 beta, then I
> guess it will stay as it is today (configure.exe only in .zip and .7z
> source packages).
>
> Cheers,
>

Hi,

Since there was no agreement, the packages will stay as they are today.

configure.exe will be included in .zip and .7z packages only.

Cheers,
-- 
Sergio Ahumada
Release Engineer - Digia, Qt