[Web] Suggestion to include info about dependencies on Qt download page

Mitch Curtis mitch.curtis at digia.com
Fri Mar 1 15:42:25 CET 2013


On 03/01/2013 11:09 AM, Tomasz Siekierda wrote:
>>>>> 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]?
>
> Yes, feel free to do that.
>
> *BUT*
> That requirements page [1] seems a little bit too complicated at first
> sight and it includes *build-dependencies* (which people don't need
> when using prebuilt libraries/ SDK). The idea behind [3] was to
> provide a simple listing of stuff that people need when they are using
> prebuilt installers from qt-project.org/downloads. So I would rather
> suggest adding the distinction between prebuilt and "source" to the
> documentation at [1], or leave everything to [2] and [3].

My bad, carry on. :p



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