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I'm curious about looking at the installation routine for Mepis and I downloaded the source code. It's a real confusing mix of C++ and XML files, but I installed the Qt Creator IDE pointed it at the source and it looks much clearer now.

However, does anyone have any experience of Qt and have some pointers on how I can fiddle with the code?

If you have a code, you probably shouldn't fiddle with it



because the music would be awful. Take two aspirins and go to bed instead.



[Obviously I have nothing helpful to offer...]

I wonder if anybody can port that to the latest QT version available for MEPIS 11.

I'm with Jerry.

Can you clarify a bit, by what you mean by 'fiddle with the code'?

Without that, all I could answer would be: Try using a text-editor
on the code itself, and then re-compile when you have it changed
like you want it. Then, fire it up and enjoy your changes.

EDIT: Now that I recall further...I also once hacked on some KDE-4 code,
a year or two ago. (A plasmoid, for wifi.) I learned some of
the details of how to compile/build etc, by googling 'kde4 development', and found some
forum or an email-list (my memory fades...). You'd do better (probably) by asking in
some forums other than these, if you want a richer/more-knowledgable response.

EDIT#2: Or, maybe send a PM directly to Marcos, as I think Jerry mentioned that Marcos
did some/most of the heavy-lifting on the previous changes.

My 2-cents...

[Like the chinaman said: "Even the longest journey begins with a single step."]

I would think qt-sdk should be installed, version 2 is in both testing and unstable.

Are you familiar with the standard build procedure for QT applications? In general, for QT 4, instead of ./configure, you'd run "qmake-qt4", which generates a makefile from settings in a .pro file. So then you would run "make" to compile the source code into a binary, which usually can be run just by clicking it, or installed by running "make install" as root.

However, since this is a Debian-based repo, it's much preferable to build deb packages from source, since the packaging system can keep track of what files go where, and avoid conflicts.

There's also the QT doc packages available in Synaptic which have plenty of walk-throughs and programming examples.

No. I'm not at all familiar with Qt, hence my interest. I can program in Perl, Java and C.

Just to clarify. I downloaded the mepis-install code (minstall_8.4.97.tar.gz) and have imported into a qt creator project. It already has a Makefile and .pro file so I probably can just run 'make' on it.

Edit:
After installing qt4-qmake, qt4-doc, qt4-dev-tools, libqt4-dev and g++ (plus dependencies), I could indeed just run 'make'. I now have a working version of the installer that I can 'fiddle' with BTW this is in M11

I wonder if we shouldn't set up a github repo for the code and play with it over there. Then if some people submit patches Warren should be able to pull them from there.

I'm not surprised at all.

M11A3 is 'alpha-quality'.

To para-phrase Nike: 'Just use it.'
[I frequently forget what version I'm using. It's just "MEPIS".]

Yeah that could be a good idea.