[Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Enabling Cmake for all the core apps

[Sergio Schvezov]

On 15/02/14 18:53, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote:
> This is a request to revert the cmake transition for all the core apps 
> since it is effectively blocking crucial application testing on the 
> device through QtCreator. Before the cmake transition, my work flow 
> comprised of implementing a patch/feature and then immediately testing 
> it on the device by pressing Ctrl+F12 through Qtcreator. This made 
> testing applications on the device quite easy. However as now, that no 
> longer works since QtCreator now complains of a missing desktop file. 
> I have tried fixing it by discussing it with zBenjamin and balloons on 
> IRC, however at the end of the day this is still broken.

What does ctrl+12 actually do? Does it require writable mode?

>
> I understand the major motivation for the cmake transition was to help 
> easily build click packages (using click-buddy) and ready them for 
> deployment to the device. However this is already easy enough to do in 
> Qtcreator by simply pressing *Ctrl+F12* or rather using the "*Install 
> on Device*" feature. As far as I understand, click-buddy doesn't help 
> with running autopilot tests on the device either. I am really 
> questioning the benefit of the cmake transition. If there is something 
> that I am missing here, please do explain this to me.

The other major motivation is to actually build click packages without 
any hacks; as it was before all the packages had hardcoded paths for the 
debs.

If you run the autopilot tests in 'deb' mode you aren't really testing 
on the target. To really test on the target you need the click package 
built, installed, and run in confinement; using debs doesn't provide any 
of that.

If the installing and testing requires writable mode on devices, that it 
is also broken in my opinion.

>
> If you agree to the request, please submit patches reverting the 
> commits done.

If there's no hard coding, I'm fine. But there was serious hard coding 
before.

Although I say, do not despair :-)

Immediate temp solution, is to make the build dir your actual branch in 
Project/Build
http://ubuntuone.com/3FqnDSLJpg2CUSYAtwj2oM

The reason you can't run locally in QtCreator is that, well, the system 
doesn't know about out of source builds that easily; and something like 
this is needed:

https://code.launchpad.net/~sergiusens/ubuntu-clock-app/run_from_qtcreator/+merge/206598

For running autopilot and installing on the device I would need more 
info on what you currently do.