I’ve been off the grid a lot lately but all that time is finally coming to fruition, my RenameTV app is done!!

It’s not perfect, not even close, but it’s been great to develop something again and actually be able to get something out the door. I have had time to play with many different bits of Qt for this, even toyed with creating a plug-in system to allow for different methods of getting the data. That was scrapped, but it was an excellent learning experiance and will certainly rear it’s head in future versions should the user or contributor numbers raise greater than one.

Unfortunately, I have set my goal for this project to be more than just an easy compiling binary. I want to properly set up installers for multiple platforms, host the source docs in an accessible manner, actually get close to a more ‘professional’ release.

This in turn means learning many packaging tools, both for Windows (WiX, NSIS, InstallJammer, and InnoSetup all need to be looked at) and Linux (DEB and RPM should cover most targets), which again leads to how I structure these into my GitHub source tree – do I simply create installer-branches much like the special gh-pages branch, or use submodules… Do I use sub-folders of the source tree to store these branches or sibling folders… So many small things to take into consideration for the final step!!

Right now, I have to go and create the release branch that I can use to get everything ready for the merge into the master branch – that and only that will be considered my first official release. Feel free to poke around: GitHub RenameTV Project