[Releasing] [Development] Qt 5.9 prebuild binary packages( was: Re: Qt 5.9)

[Jake Petroules]

LET'S DO IT! And thank you for following through on this idea.

This will reduce our package testing burden significantly which is very important because it lowers the barrier to entry for us to actually add new platforms/installers. For example, adding tvOS to the combined macOS/iOS/Android package would be valuable.

I would omit the host architectures (it provides no useful value since there are multiple host architectures in some cases) and target platforms from the filenames, though (like -android, -qnx, -android-ios), because they aren't there for the Windows package so it would be more consistent. The download descriptions should detail what each package contains.

Also, can we simply subsume the QNX packages into the base enterprise packages? i.e. combine qt-enterprise-linux-x64-android and qt-enterprise-linux-x64-qnx? Or is there a licensing-related issue around that? And why do we need different packages based on the license, anyways?

> On Dec 20, 2016, at 9:28 PM, Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I finally managed to do testing how big combined windows installer would be. I was a bit surprised that it is only ~3.3 GB, which is still smaller than combined mac-android-ios installer ;) Ok, this is done from 5.8 packages & binaries so situation might be a bit different in 5.9 where we will have some new binaries to be done. But in the other hand we will/should drop some so I think the size of combined one should be still manageable.
> 
> So I propose we will offer following set of offline installers from Qt 5.9 ->
> 
> - For linux we will have 3 installers (instead of existing 5):
>   * qt-enterprise-linux-x64-android  (already delivering this)
>   * qt-opensource-linux-x64-android (already delivering this)
>      ** Desktop gcc 64-bit
>      ** Android x86
>      ** Android armv7
>   * qt-enterprise-linux-x64-qnx (already delivering this)
>      ** Desktop gcc 64-bit
>      ** Qnx x86
>      ** Qnx armv7
>      ** NOTE: I don't think we can offer QNX 7 binaries yet so QNX 6 binaries will be offered like 5.8.0
> 
> - For mac we will have 2 installers (instead of existing 6):
>   * qt-enterprise-mac-x64-android-ios (already delivering this)
>   * qt-opensource-mac-x64-android-ios (already delivering this)
>      ** Desktop clang 64-bit
>      ** Android x86
>      ** Android armv7
>      ** iOS
> 
> - For windows we will have 3 installers (instead of existing 17):
>   * qt-enterprise-windows-x86 (new)
>   * qt-opensource-windows-x86 (new)
>      ** Desktop MSVC 2013 x64
>      ** Desktop MSVC 2015 x86
>      ** Desktop MSVC 2015 x64
>      ** Desktop MSVC 2017 x64
>      ** Desktop MinGW 5.3 x86
>      ** UWP MSVC 2015 x86
>      ** UWP MSVC 2015 x64
>      ** UWP MSVC 2015 armv7
>      ** UWP MSVC 2017 x86
>      ** UWP MSVC 2017 x64
>      ** UWP MSVC 2017 armv7
>      ** Android x86
>      ** Android armv7
>  * qt-enterprise-linux-x64-qnx (already delivering this)
>      ** Desktop MinGW 5.3 x86
>      ** Qnx x86
>      ** Qnx armv7
>      ** NOTE: I don't think we can offer QNX 7 binaries yet so QNX 6 binaries will be offered like 5.8.0
> br,
> Jani
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Development <development-bounces+jani.heikkinen=qt.io at qt-project.org> on behalf of Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 5:05 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt 5.9
> 
> On quarta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2016 07:53:40 PST Jake Petroules wrote:
>> How about we have one package per host platform which includes all possible
>> hosts and targets compatible with it? Then we have 3 packages, ever.
> 
> Or, at least, one binary per platform + compiler combination. So that's 1
> Linux package, 1 macOS package, 3 Windows packages today, with a 4th Windows
> (MSVC 2017) coming for 5.9.
> 
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>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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