Hi Rainer,

version dependent for the Windows build description means dependent on 
the _QMapShack_ release.
E.g. for QMapShack 1.6 a different version of some package might be 
required than for QMapShack 1.4.
Assuming that somebody might be interested in older versions he can get 
a corresponding build description together with the code. This is not 
the case for the wiki as there you see always the latest version.
Nevertheless - as probably nobody would build an old version - I think 
about moving it to the Wiki.

If you still have nsi/HOWTO-BUILD.txt somewhere then you are mixing up 
different hg versions: nsi/HOWTO-BUILD.txt has been replaced by 
nsi/HOWTO-BUILD.md as you can see from the hg history 
(https://bitbucket.org/maproom/qmapshack/commits/8a6a4178fd7a9b0407b16b2cce559c3227e93795).

The file nsi/3rdparty.txt belongs to the deployment package and thus has 
to stay in the repository.
Probably the content needs a bit polishing.

Regards,

Helmut

Am 17.03.2016 um 15:21 schrieb Dr Rainer Woitok:
> Helmut,
>
> On Tuesday, 2016-03-15 22:34:09 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> the Windows build description has never been part of the Wiki.
>> It has always been in the source repository as the build instructions
>> may be version dependent.
> If "version dependent" means "depending on the  Windows version" I would
> like to point out  that the wiki already  contains version dependent in-
> stallation instructions: Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> Anyway, from a customer's perspective  I'd prefer to have _ALL_ the doc-
> umentation in a single repository  I can clone locally.   For a customer
> it's a bit  unsatisfactory  to find  three sources,  the two local files
> "nsi/HOWTO-BUILD.txt", "nsi"/3rdparty.txt", and the document at
>
>     https://bitbucket.org/maproom/qmapshack/raw/tip/nsi/HOWTO-BUILD.md
>
> which -- at least at first glance -- are rather similar,  forcing one to
> sift through  all three files in parallel  looking for differences.   If
> you're lucky,  there are none  or the three files are supplementing each
> other, but if you're  not that lucky,  you are  forced to  make educated
> guesses as to which information to trust.
>
> In both cases  you'd be way better off,  if someone who knows would have
> merged these three files into a single file, put it in the wiki, and on-
> ly provided a small file  "README.txt", "HOWTO.txt", or "INSTALL.txt" in
> the "nsi/" directory of the source code repository  which basically con-
> tains the URL of the file in the wiki.
>
> And from a maintainer's  point of view I would, too,  prefer to have the
> documentation in a single place where it's relatively easy to keep it up
> to date and consistent.
>
> Just my two cents worth ...
>
> Sincerely,
>    Rainer


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