question about qt5-creator-examples

[Marcus Calhoun-Lopez]

Almost all of the qt5-* ports have an +examples variant, which, as you might expect, installs examples.
They then should show up in Qt Creator.

Qbs also installs some examples.

-Marcus


> On Dec 1, 2015, at 7:36 AM, Gill Bates <smogus at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> Thanks for the clarification.
> My situation is that I'm trying to evaluate Qt as a platform for a new project and am faced with its learning curve. So having working examples to examine would be useful although not critical.
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> It was intentional to have the examples not be replaced by another port.
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> During installation, Qt Creator builds a local copy of the build system Qbs to build itself.
> The examples that Qt Creator was installing were from the Qbs build system and not from Qt Creator.
> It seemed that if these examples were desired, it was better that they be installed by the Qbs port (qbs) and not Qt Creator.
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> Were these examples useful?
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> -Marcus
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> On Nov 30, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Gill Bates <smogus at shaw.ca <mailto:smogus at shaw.ca>> wrote:
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> Some of the qt5 creator related ports have been renamed (e.g., qt5-creator-mac is now qt5-creator and q5-creator-mac-docs is now qt5-creator-docs) but this didn't happen for the creator examples port (the qt5-creator-mac-examples port reports as obsolete and won't install).
> Has the port for the examples been abandoned or are the examples included in a different port?
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