Distribution-independent installer framework
| CMakeModules | ||
| hacking | ||
| images | ||
| lang | ||
| src | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .gitmodules | ||
| AUTHORS | ||
| CalamaresAddLibrary.cmake | ||
| CalamaresAddModuleSubdirectory.cmake | ||
| CalamaresAddPlugin.cmake | ||
| CalamaresBuildTreeSettings.cmake.in | ||
| CalamaresConfig.cmake.in | ||
| CalamaresConfigVersion.cmake.in | ||
| CalamaresUse.cmake.in | ||
| cmake_uninstall.cmake.in | ||
| CMakeLists.txt | ||
| HACKING.md | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| README.md | ||
| settings.conf | ||
Calamares
Distribution-independent installer framework
Dependencies
- CMake >= 2.8.12
- Qt >= 5.3
- yaml-cpp >= 0.5.1
- Python >= 3.3
- Boost.Python >= 1.55.0
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.
Some modules require additional dependencies: for example the partition viewmodule pulls in partitionmanager, which in turn requires a few KF5 libraries.