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QtCS2017 QtQuickControlsDeployment
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Meeting minutes from (Qt Quick Controls) Deployment Challenges, QtCon 2017
Organizer: Nils Jeisecke Notetaker: Kai Koehne
- First user experience is bad
- windeployqt does expect qml files in subdirectory
- Qt Creator template puts main.qml in top level file
- Files / resources mess
- Documentation for QQ Controls 1: "Everything is in resources"
- windeployqt copies a lot of .qml files though
- Also .qmlc files are copied by windeployqt
- Comment: All these .qml files are prob a bug in Qt Quick Controls 1 build scripts
- Comment: We probably copy them for debugging/profiling
- Difference between static and dynamic builds
- Static builds: .qml files for imports are put into the executable
- Dynamic builds: single .qml files are shipped
- This is not reflected by documentation though
- Why is Qt resource system better
- Unified approach on all platforms
- Code signing
- .qmlc
- Same problems are there for Qt Quick Controls 2: QTBUG-48386
- Why is 'qmltooling' deployed by windeployqt?
- Useful for debugging and profiling
- There's no clear distinction though between 'deployment' to a device, and generating a final package.
- Conclusion
- We think Qt resource system should be the way to go
- Anhow, we miss the right people in the session to decide this. Let's try to schedule a second slot.
- (Update: Since it relates closely to Qt Quick, the suggestion is to bring this up in the 'New QML compiler infrastructure' session)
- (Update: lots of ideas: QtCS2017 Qt Deployment Story)