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

2016-12-22 Thread Andrew Knight
Hi, On 12/22/16 09:18, Oliver Wolff wrote: > Can someone elaborate on how "one package per OS" reduces the testing > burden significantly? We still have to check every > platform/configuration that is inside the package. All that changes is > that the testers install from one big package instead

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

2016-12-21 Thread Oliver Wolff
Can someone elaborate on how "one package per OS" reduces the testing burden significantly? We still have to check every platform/configuration that is inside the package. All that changes is that the testers install from one big package instead of smaller packages. I doubt that one person will

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

2016-12-21 Thread 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 pac

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

2016-12-20 Thread Jani Heikkinen
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