[WIP] Added support of the base packages

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Status

• [ ] Add the noBase option
• [ ] Add the basePackage option
• [ ] Add tests of the noBase and basePacakge options
• [x] Add documentations for new options.

Description

Introduction

The base package it is package that contains all general files betwin all compared packages. For example you have a Qt application and you create 3 executable files (client server and terminal) and you want to create installer when all packages can be disabled.

Trouble

If you cteate 3 separete package for each target then you get a dublicate of the qt libraries because all executable files dependet of the qt.

Solution

Is a create a base package with a shared libraries for separete pacakge and creating dependenses to the base packages for all dependet packages.

By default CQtDeployer try create a base papckage for all packages of your distribution. If you don't want to create base package and want to create a separated independet packages you should be use the noBase option.

The NoBase option force cqtdeployer disable generate a base package.

Manual control of the base packages

Some times we create a very big Distributions with the many targets and one base package may by not enough. So for this case the CQtDeployer have the basePackage option.

the BasePackge option creats a base package for selected list of packages.

Example:

We want to create 2 base pacages.

We have a 5 targets:

• terminal
• server
• clientGame
• cleintMapEditor
• clientDocumentation

We make 3 packages like this :

• BackEnd (include terminal and server)
• FrontEnd (include clientGame and clientDocumentation)
• GameModer (include only cleintMapEditor)

So the GameModer and FrontEnd packages has a many general libs because its work with client libraries and BackEnd have only own libraries and general Qt libraries with the FrontEnd and GameModer.

For solve this task we need to create a next dependet tree:

BasePackage---->BaseFrontEnd pacakge---->FrontEnd pacakge
           \                        \
            \                        --->GameModer package
             \
              --->BackEnd pacakge

So that we nee to create 2 base packages BaseFrontEnd and BasePackage. The BasePackage create automaticly because we don't use the noBase option.

CQtDeployer command :

cqtdeployer -targetPackage BackEnd;terminal;server,FrontEnd;clientGame;clientDocumentation,GameModer;cleintMapEditor -bin terminal,server,clientGame,cleintMapEditor -extraTarget FrontEnd;clientDocumentation -basePackage BaseFrontEnd;GameModer;FrontEnd qif

So This command create our tree. but is very hard command... Еo ease the task, I suggest using the configuration file instead of one command in the console.

CQtdeployer.json

{
    "targetPackage": [
        ["BackEnd", "terminal", "server"],
        ["FrontEnd", "clientGame", "clientDocumentation"],
        ["GameModer", "cleintMapEditor"]

    ],
    "bin": [
        "terminal",
        "server",
        "clientGame",
        "cleintMapEditor"

    ],
    "extraTarget": [
        ["FrontEnd", "clientDocumentation"]
    ],
    "basePackage": [
        ["BaseFrontEnd", "GameModer", "FrontEnd"]
    ],
    "qif": true
}

And run commmand with the confFile

cqtdeployer -confFile CQtdeployer.json

Done.

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Concept of the packages structure.

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