Android plugin and Qt Creator development

[BogDan]

Hi Daniel,

> Hi,

> 
> as you might have heard, a few days ago most of the android plugin was merged 
> to Qt Creator master. There's still a change outstanding [1], but there were 
> 
> also some hacks in the android plugin code that aren't merged to the master 
> branch.
>

I didn't had time to announce the good news :) !
 
> I'd like to start a discussion on how to develop the plugin in the future, 
> which prevents unneeded divergence between the code in Qt Creator master and 
> the code in the Necessitas repositories.
> 
> Before we can discuss that properly, we need to know though, if and how many 
> changes the Necessitas Qt Creator needs on top of Qt Creator master. As I 
> recall we dropped a few things while reviewing because they looked too hacky 
> for master. 
> 

I hope Necessitas Qt Creator and Qt Creator (2.6, 2.7 ... master) will be same, 
at least this is our goal.


>
> Also we probably need to have some idea how often the Necessitas SDK is going 
> to be released and whether you prefer to base your releases on master or 
> release branches, e.g. 2.6.
> 

We'll prefer to use release branches, even more we'll prefer to use the same SDK repos, 
and to add only android bits as a 3rd party repository, this way the users can use
the same QtCreator/SDK Installer to install Meego, Symbian, etc. and Android !
It will also great because we don't have to build the whole SDK :)
Of course we have some patches which must go to SDK installer as well.


>
> I think the goal should be move the development of the Necessitas Qt Creator 
> onto gerrit. 
> 

I don't see too many changes to Necessitas Qt Creator, so I'm ok to do the
development on gerrit.

>
> As to the Bug tracker and mailing lists, I would propose that nothing changes.
> There's still some confusion about the mailing lists and bug trackers for 
> Necessitas from the last move, as such adding another bug tracker or a 
> mailinglist would do no good at the moment. (Especially with only the Creator 
> part being moved.)
> 
> Nevertheless any bugs that are reported against the android plugin in 
> bugreports.qt-project.org will be handled.
> 
> daniel
> 
> [1] https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,21980

I'll update the patch tomorrow. 

Thanks ,

Cheers,
BogDan.