[Web] Suggestion to include info about dependencies on Qt download page
Mitch Curtis
mitch.curtis at digia.com
Fri Mar 1 10:58:01 CET 2013
On 02/28/2013 12:59 PM, Koehne Kai wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: web-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:web-
>> bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Leon Anavi
>> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:49 PM
>> To: web at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Web] Suggestion to include info about dependencies on Qt
>> download page
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>> Hi All,
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>>> It might be all obvious
>>> for us, but some newbies are really struggling sometimes. And there
>>> are lots of new people coming to Qt, at least judging from my reading
>>> of the forums.
Having a link to Qt's requirements on the download page is definitely a
good idea, but I think creating a third page that lists requirements is
a bad idea. It means we have to keep all of these up-to-date:
[1] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/requirements.html
[2] http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git
[3] http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt5_dependencies
Can we kill the Qt5_dependencies page and just link to [1]?
>> I agree. The download and the installation of the SDK is the first impression
>> that Qt makes to newbies and it is very important. An inexperienced student
>> might decide not to use Qt just because of a minor issue during the
>> installation.
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> Sure, but IMO the Downloads page isn't the right place. Let's keep this clean and mean so that you can actually find stuff :) We ship a README in every binary installer, maybe we can extend that by information on where to get the compiler ...
Why isn't it the right place? It's only one line of text. There's an
area for notes under each section. We could put the link to [1] as the
first line of the notes for the Qt 5.0 section.
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