[Development] Recommendations for 3rd-party QCH file installation folder for easy discovery?

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On jueves, 24 de noviembre de 2016 07:38:20 ART Uwe Rathmann wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:05:20 +0100, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Q1: what would be a good system path pattern (on *nixoid systems) for
> > Qt-based libraries to install their QCH files to?
> 
> Qwt ( http://qwt.sf.net ) offers a qch file and is available for quite
> some time. So you could check, what is common practice among distro
> packagers.
> 
> F.e. on my box ( OpenSusSE 12.2 ) it is simply not part of qwt6-devel-
> doc. But the OpenSuSE package maintainer seems in general not being aware
> of these Qt specific files as the installation of the feature files is
> also broken.
> 
> But the rest of the docs can be found below /usr/share/doc/packages/qwt6-
> devel-doc and IMO this is where I would expect to find qwt.qch as well.
>
> Maybe other distros can give you a better hint.

At least on Debian I would push them to /usr/share/<app>/doc/
 
> > Q2: And would/could there be some way to have 3rd-party QCH files
> > automatically added to Qt Assistant, Creator & Co. on installation, to
> > spare the user the additional manual step?
> 
> To me one of the most error prone things is loading 3rd party plugins to
> the creator. This has mostly to do with binary incompatibilities between
> the libraries used for development and the one used by the Creator
> ( Assistant is less bad as being built together with Qt libs ) , but the
> fact, that plugins are loaded "automatically" from some directories is
> part of the problem.
> 
> Coming from having experienced maximal user frustration with this
> approach I wouldn't recommend to establish such an automatism.

Note he says qch. I don't think it uses plugins for that.


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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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