OK, this is pretty cool

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Nov 12, 2017, at 12:52 AM, Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se> wrote:
> 
> Yea, its a old and obsolete variant. Just trying to give you some
> examples on how it was done once back in time.

Much appreciated

> Btw. What still requires QtWebKit? Printing?

As was discussed a few times:
- printing
- Facebook (which doesn't log in when using an AppImage)

>>> I also have a version which builds a android apk:
>>> https://github.com/glance-/subsurface/blob/master_travis_android_docker/.travis.yml
>> 
>> Cool, definitely something we should add. Feel free to bring this up to the latest master and send a pull request!
> 
> The matrix-bits are already there so it should be a quite quick thing to
> do. I'll try to get it done.

Excellent

>>> I like the trick of running a docker container with the dependencies we
>>> need for running the build in. That way you get full control of the
>>> environment and you don't need to rely on the quite messy travis images.
>> 
>> I don't know how to do that in general and I don't think we can do this for Mac in particular.
> 
> Thats the trick used in the android builds above.

OK, I'll need to study this more. AFTER I have a working Mac build.

>>> The only other thing I can recommend is to automate building our MXE
>>> environment and our Qt-builds to.
>> 
>> I don't know what that would gain me. On a machine that I can ssh into (or that's local to me) I can usually get these builds going.
>> Except making it 100 times harder and a 1000 times more painful, what would be the benefit of doing this?
> 
> It will give us the same benefit as having travis doing our builds. Yea,
> you did them by hand for quite a while, now travis does them for us.
> 
> Its easier for others to replicate, reproduce and debug if the scripts
> to build those tar-balls where available, and even better if travis
> produced them by it self.
> 
> A good sysadmin replaces him self with as much automation as possible =)

Point taken. So I'll stop working on Subsurface for a bit and work on Travis instead.

/D