[QGIS-Developer] Download the QGIS User Manual HTML Files

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Alexandre,

What would be required to add an additional build step to zip the whole 
content including everything after build and push that to a downloadable 
location?

Matthias

On 18.02.19 18:55, Alexandre Neto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, once the documentation is built, all images are gathered in the 
> same folder, which means that there is no way split each document in a 
> clean way. To separate a certain document (e. g., the user manual) you 
> need to ignore the other sections in the conf.py or directly on the 
> sphinx_build command.
>
> On the other hand, adding other languages shouldn't increase the file 
> size that much, because most images are shared (we don't have many 
> localized screenshots).
>
> See you soon.
>
> Alexandre Neto
>
> A seg, 18/02/2019, 16:51, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch 
> <mailto:matthias at opengis.ch>> escreveu:
>
>     Hi Richard
>
>     On 2/18/19 5:10 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>>     On 18/02/2019 16.24, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     In the QGIS options, there is a list of alternative help paths to search
>>>     for documentation.
>>>
>>>     Is there a zip file (or other means) available to download these docs to
>>>     keep them locally? I failed to find something.
>>     Hi Matthias,
>>
>>     Nope, nothing available. The idea is/was that we add an extra step in
>>     the build Makefile to just zip the language build and rsync it to the
>>     docs server, OR to another download server.
>>
>>     One thing to note is that we (maybe Alexander Neto has better details)
>>     do not have separated builds/image directories for all the docs in the
>>     documentation tree (Documentation, PythonCookbook, Gentle Gis Intro, Doc
>>     Guidelines).
>>     I created a zip from this nights build for you:
>>     https://docs.qgis.org/testing/qgisdocs_en.zip   (183Mb)
>
>     Thanks a lot for that!
>
>>     I would be happy to split this up though.
>>     My idea was to let people choose to download one language (for the
>>     non-testing builds).
>>     I was hoping that we could leave it zipped on the file-system and be
>>     able to view in either in users browser OR in an embedded webkit widget
>>     or so.
>
>     How much data are we talking about, the 183Mb from the link above?
>
>     If it's not considerably more, I would say in order to minimize
>     the overhead we could just serve this monolithic file with all doc
>     parts/languages included in a first step and require the user to
>     unzip it himself.
>
>     Regards
>
>     Matthias
>
>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Richard
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