On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 20:23:00 Christoph Cullmann wrote: > 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.
I fully agree with your POV. Alex
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