[bt-devel] PDFs and other object files in source tarballs

[Martin Gruner]

Jonathan,

I removed the .qm files from the source tree. They are now automatically 
created when building BibleTime. Let me know if this works for you.

mg

Am Freitag, 20. November 2009 04:16:17 schrieb Jonathan Marsden:
> Earlier, I wrote:
> > (b1) This is not really valid for the *.qm files, I think -- you'll
> > need a working Qt development environment anyway, so you'll have an
> > lrelease binary installed as a part of that, as I understand it, on
> > all platforms.  What additional software is needed to convert .ts
> > files into .qm files?  It doesn't seem to me that this is a
> > particularly resource intensive process, either.  Is Qt lrelease
> > broken on Windows?
> 
> Trying to stay positive, I just checked for the existence of lrelease,
> instead of just guessing that it exists, for all popular build
> platforms.  A sane-looking lrelease definitely exists in Linux, Windows
> and Mac Qt 4.4.x SDK installs (I opened up the .dmg file on a Windows PC
> to find the lrelease binary, I don't have a Mac available, so I can't
> actually run that binary).  I'm downloading the qt4 port onto an old
> (really old, Pentium III 500MHz or so!) FreeBSD machine as I type, so I
> can verify there is an lrelease in the Qt SDK there, also.
> 
> So: would it be both practical and appropriate to avoid storing *.qm
> files in the source tarballs and in svn, and to use lrelease on all
> platforms to create the *.qm files from the *.ts files at build time?
> The cmake work for doing this is apparently already in place.
> 
> As far as I can tell, all that should be needed is a one-line addition
> to ./build-debug.sh and ./build-release.sh, so that they each will run
> "make messages || exit 1" before running "make -j4 install || exit 1".
> 
> Speed of compiling the *.qm files seems very reasonable to me, totalling
> maybe 6 seconds or so on an old slow P4 machine, 3 seconds on a more
> recent quad core desktop machine.
> 
> Is there a still good reason for keeping *.qm files in the BibleTime
> source tarballs and svn tree?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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