[Qgis-developer] Wiki page/area for 'Building QGIS from scratch'

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

@John - sorry for the name mix up in my last post :-(


> On 22 Mar 2017, at 10:25 AM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
> 
> Normally, the way is that every project maintains the build steps for
> their own software and provides a list of dependencies. That's what we
> try to do here:
> https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.html
> 

INSTALL.html (which is generated from txt2tags markup) is also versioned so you are more or less guaranteed to have a working configuration based on the code you have checked out.

John the points you raised about wikis being easy to edit etc. are all good points. Speaking from hard earned experience here though, the 'old' QGIS wiki over 12 or so years became such a hodge podge of useful and unusable information that it because a large pain point in trying to find trustworthy information. Having formally curated documents, while making it harder to edit (which we would like to fix) emphasizes quality over quantity. Richard has been researching ways to use Markdown for the docs in sphinx so that content can be edited directly in GitHub but that is not something usable ye, and I am not sure if he is still actively working on it.

Regards

Tim


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