[Releasing] Current beta installers

[casper.vandonderen at nokia.com]

On 7/17/12 9:52 AM, "Vandonderen Casper (Nokia-MP/Oslo)"
<casper.vandonderen at nokia.com> wrote:

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>________________________________________
>From: Mcdonald Jason (Nokia-MP/Brisbane)
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:19 AM
>To: Vandonderen Casper (Nokia-MP/Oslo); Bornemann Joerg (Nokia-MP/Berlin)
>Cc: releasing at qt-project.org
>Subject: RE: [Releasing] Current beta installers
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>>> A more severe issue: the docs are almost completely missing from
>>> assistant. Only the assistant docs are there.
>>
>>That is because we don't have qhelpgenerator available in the script
>>that produces the installers, we just run "make >online_docs" in qtdoc
>>and copy that over (I think).
>>
>>We should probably start running "make qch_docs" in qtdoc instead, which
>>requires qhelpgenerator from qttools.
>>
>> The mksrc.sh script in qtrepotools/release-tools does that, but Digia
>>aren't using that script for their packages right now.  Consequently,
>>QtProject-generated source packages have docs, but Digia-generated
>>packages do not.  That will hopefully get resolved soon.
>>
>> Note however that the docs in the QtProject-generated packages are
>>missing hyperlinks to most of the QML docs.  The snapshot online docs
>>from the doc team don't have as many missing links, so I'm guessing that
>>there's either still something missing from the black magic in mksrc.sh
>>or that its an offline versus online docs problem.
>
>Hmm, there seems to be a difference somewhere, I'm getting 220 extra qdoc
>errors when running "qch_docs".
>Also the command for qhelpgenerator does not work by default (probably we
>should use something different than "$${Qt.help.bins} to find
>qhelpgenerator).
>
>I will investigate.
>

Most(/all) of the problems with the QCH docs should be resolved now. It
would be nice if you still notice big gaps after Qt5 integration happens
and the packages are generated again.

Casper