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. -- Must it be assumed that because we are engineers beauty is not our concern, and that while we make our constructions robust and durable we do not also strive to make them elegant? Is it not true that the genuine conditions of strength always comply with the secret conditions of harmony? Gustave Eiffel, 1887 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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