[Qgis-developer] INSTALL doc and svn/git

[William Kyngesburye]

This is what I had in mind, but I didn't think about the CODING file, I guess the git stuff can be moved there, though that might be info overload for casual users that want to try development sources:

http://github.com/kyngchaos/Quantum-GIS/commit/1ecfd9b0addec28494f0331b3446bcf60273f053

Only the Mac section is updated here to refer to the git section and to have git installation instructions.  Similar would be needed for Linux and Windows.

On May 8, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi William
> 
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, William Kyngesburye
> <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
>> While looking over the Mac build instructions for 1.7 release, I realized the whole SVN section will have to be changed to be about git.
>> 
>> Then it occurred to me - why are we mentioning getting source from svn (now git) at all for a release?  This is in a released source package.  Of course, svn/git applies to trunk (now master).
>> 
>> Maybe to accomodate both a release and git the body platform sections could be about release packages, with reference to a separate section at the end (after all platform sections) that covers git for those interested.  That would also reduce some redundancy in describing git setup and commands.
>> 
> 
> Yeah or we should just move all git related stuff into CODING.t2t
> which is intended for developers (who are probably more likely to
> actually care about such things)....and just put a note referring to
> that file in the INSTALL.t2t docs.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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