On May 7, 2015, at 10:18 AM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I thought it'd be nice to have the kdelibs4 documentation in Qt help (.qch) 
> format. It is available online, but seriously outdated and will of course not 
> reflect any OS X specific changes that we made.
> 
> There is a script in the doc/api directory that generates this documentation 
> file, but it hogs the computer for over an hour. My initial thought had been 
> to generate it unconditionally if the user selects the +docs variant, but not 
> when there is so much overhead. What alternatives are there? I could create a 
> subport, but that would still cause this documentation to be rebuilt each 
> time an update is pushed and the user does an `upgrade outdated`, which seems 
> overkill to me. If it were just me I'd let the generation depend on the 
> presence of a specific env. variable, in the +docs variant; would that be 
> acceptable?

Due to license conflicts the MacPorts kdelibs4 port is not binary 
distributable, but, if the license for the docs is friendly a subport could 
avoid the time required for doc generation when there is a buildbot for the 
users platform and the user has the default prefix.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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