Try out the Qt Installer Framework as an alternative to NSIS
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Description
The installer framework that is used by Qt and Qt Creator is free software and available for other projects to use as well. It would be good to evaluate its use as an alternative to the current NSIS based installer.
Blog about 1.3 release: https://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/03/27/qt-installer-framework-1-3-released/
Download: http://releases.qt-project.org/qt-installer-framework/1.3.0/
Manual: http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qtifw-1.3/index.html
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the Qt Installer Framework manual, release blog, and download linked in the issue, then inspect how Tiled's current NSIS-based installer is organized. Evaluate whether the framework is suitable as an alternative and document the resulting recommendation or implementation path.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- build-system, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100