[maemo-developers] MADDE 'developer' account - good or bad?

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Thomas Perl <th.perl at gmail.com> wrote:

> The current version of Qt SDK automatically creates and deploys a .deb
> on the device, so once the package has been deployed, if I want to
> test the app with the "user" account, I just run it from X Terminal
> (/usr/local/bin/<appname> with a standard project). Don't know if that
> is a solution for IDE-loving developers, but it's not that hard, and
> you can always have a xterm (or PuTTY for Windows users) running on
> your development machine and start the app from there.

Being able to set a breakpoint and actually hitting that breakpoint on
device without batting an eyelid is what IMO rocks most about the
whole Nokia Qt SDK scheme. If I was launching the program over ssh, I
could as well go back to scratchbox and a bunch of scripts to build &
copy the program over to device.

BTW, in new versions you can disable that packaging step (from build
settings, by expanding the "Create Package" build step). This makes
the deployment ~1 sec experience, which is pretty nice.

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Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia