develop, build, test and distribute QML extensions
How can developers develop, build, test and distribute QML extensions?
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
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- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
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- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
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- Milestone target:
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state of things
- lots of things exposed to qml layer, API set is far from perfect, some things missing, so we want to keep the door open to access other services
→ create QML API, using C++, expose classes/
- fairly common use case
- packaging all qml modules in the archive might not be the best way forward
- bundling (for now - 13.10) not ideal, but it works
- some sort of dependencies in the future might be possible - read-only system might be a problem
- we want: cross-building, multiarch libraries in place, no emulation
- library meta-data being fixed now by doko (qt?)
- use sbuild+
- option: build a persistent chroot in QtCreator with the right set of multiarch build-deps installed for whichever combination of targets you want to build for; if the necessary Multi-Arch headers are present in packages ("foreign" for tools, "same" for libraries) then any combination is possible
- see https:/
Use cases for 14.04:
- multiple apps using the same non-standard framework
- dmedia being used by other apps
Using debs, scenarios
- Build locally from source package and extract bits from binary package.
- Build source package on remote system(PPA) for distribution.
- Use pull-lp-package to get binary packages and extract into click package.
- SDK will list available binary packages in PPA (or PPAs).
Work Items
Work items:
[cjwatson] get time budgeted in Foundations for fleshing out multiarch metadata sufficiently to build PPA extensions: TODO
[bzoltan] find out how to do local cross-compilation: TODO
[bzoltan] investigate how to tie SDK to PPAs: TODO
[dholbach] schedule meeting to figure out library distribution model: TODO