[Qgis-developer] QGIS Install instructions

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Harrisou

> On 21 Dec 2016, at 12:04 AM, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Browsing the install instructions of QGIS at http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html <http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html> (whose source is at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/INSTALL <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/INSTALL>), it is stated:
> 
> _/!\ Note to document writers: This documented is generated from
> doc/INSTALL.t2t - if you need to edit this document, be sure to edit that 
> file rather than the generated INSTALL document found in the root of the 
> source directory._
> 
> The doc/INSTALL.t2t file being an aggregate of multiple .t2t files from the doc folder, I concluded that these were the files to edit if I needed to fix something in the install instructions.
> 
> So, can someone please explain me why this fix (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/6f87532ac7610f72c1f8bbef7deceb713f7f8e54 <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/6f87532ac7610f72c1f8bbef7deceb713f7f8e54>) from days ago is not yet available in https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html#toc10? <https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html#toc10?>

I am not sure if the process has changed, but historically we would only generate the INSTALL document during the release process...I would suggest to just run the t2t script to produce the INSTALL doc when you make changes and then include the updated INSTALL in your patch.

Regards

Tim


> 
> Regards,
> Harrissou
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