Hi, > Christoph. > > I have had similar goals for a while, but haven't reached the point > that I was having much success yet in that regard. One thing to keep > in mind when developing installers, Qt Installer Framework. I did a > quick test with attica on OS X I can put on reviewboard to see what > you think. I added a few lines to CMakeLists.txt to make it so you can > do make package, and it uses CPack and Qt Installer Framework to > create an installer application which can be used to download both > attica and attica-devel packages for OSX. I bet we could put together > a "meta" package for at least KF5 and maybe more which would consist > of a CMakeLists.txt and a bunch of git clones beneath it could be used > to create one OSX or Windows installer that could then be used to > download applications and all their dependencies. I wasn't sure how to > add dependency information to the result of CPack's QIFW generator, > but it should be doable. > > The result of all of that would be one tool for OS X and a similar one > for Windows that work exactly like the Qt online installers. Qt's > online installers are meant for developers though, not end users, so > we may need to improve QIF itself to make the resulting installer more > user friendly, we'll see. I meant to blog about all of this a week or > so ago, but haven't gotten around to it. What do you think of the idea > in general though? I am not really a fan of that idea, to be honest.
I think that is more or less what we had in the past with the "kdewin" installer, that is like the cygwin installer pulling in all stuff you need and a set of applications in some common prefix. I am not sure that was such a success, compared to what e.g. Krita, Marble, Digikam and others do: individual self-contained installers (or bundles). I really think we should focus on making frameworks fit for that and not rebuilding some "micro-distro" with online installer for that operating systems. But that is just my opinion, perhaps I am wrong with that. Greetings Christoph -- ----------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann --------- AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH Email: cullm...@absint.com Science Park 1 Tel: +49-681-38360-22 66123 Saarbrücken Fax: +49-681-38360-20 GERMANY WWW: http://www.AbsInt.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführung: Dr.-Ing. Christian Ferdinand Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Saarbrücken, HRB 11234 _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
