Calamares ========= Distribution-independent installer framework [![Build Status](http://calamares.pangea.pub/buildStatus/icon?job=calamares-master)](http://calamares.pangea.pub/job/calamares-master/) ### Dependencies * CMake >= 2.8.12 * Qt >= 5.3 * yaml-cpp >= 0.5.1 * Python >= 3.3 * Boost.Python >= 1.55.0 Additional dependencies, only for the partitioning module: * extra-cmake-modules * kconfig (part of KF5) * solid (part of KF5) * kcoreaddons (part of KF5) * ki18n (part of KF5) ### Building ``` $ git submodule init $ git submodule update $ mkdir build $ cd build $ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .. $ make ``` ### Design notes Calamares is currently split as follows: * libcalamares - the backend library, * only depends on QtCore, yaml-cpp, Python and Boost.Python, * provides a job queue and generic jobs, * comes with 3 job interfaces: C++, Python and process (the latter is very limited); * libcalamaresui - the frontend library, * same dependencies as libcalamares, plus QtWidgets and other Qt modules, * comes with a module loading system, for different kinds of plugins, * themeable so branding can be done easily (plugin-based, TBD), * presents a bunch of pages in a scripted order, enqueues jobs in the backend library; * calamares - the main executable, * a thin wrapper around libcalamaresui, starts up and plugs together all the parts.