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Re: SDK Tools - creating fat packages

 

Well, that might solve the problem in some way, but to be honest I don't really want to go through the building, testing and uploading process for multiple click packages. One is enough...

Am Mo, 9. Feb, 2015 um 5:24 schrieb Jelmer Prins <justcarakas@xxxxxxxxxx>:
isn’t it than a better solution to be able to be able to upload multiple click packages for an app ? And than let the store look if it has a click package for the targeted device ?

that way you only download what you need
This could also help to back port fixes to frameworks your current release doesn’t support anymore

greetz

JustCarakas

On 09 Feb 2015, at 17:12, Benjamin Zeller <benjamin.zeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Am 09.02.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Michał Sawicz:
 W dniu 09.02.2015 o 16:59, Benjamin Zeller pisze:
If we are going down that path, the stores responsibilty must be to
 split up the
fat package and only deliver the parts required for the specific client.
We don't want to touch the packaged app when the user uploads it to the
 store. It's signed by the developer and we can't touch it thus.
 Thats unfortunately true :/. Didn't think of that...

Why should a armhf 15.04 device download binaries for i386 14.10 and
 i386 15.04.
 That is a waste of bandwith AND space on the end users device....
I'd say that applies to single-framework fat packages just as well (i386
 vs. amd64).
Absolutely. Could we probably at least strip the click application from unneeded frameworks and architectures when installing? So we do not fill up the device with files
 that are never ever touched again?
 At least the std paths we know about e.g. /lib/<arch>

Also packaging a app like that is really not easy even with UI support. I imagine a QtC project with > 10 buildconfigurations is not fun to handle..
I'd say 2 or 10 is probably not that big of a difference, if done right.

 At least it won't make things easier ;).

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