.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+name: Build-Documentation
+
+on:
+  # Trigger the workflow every night
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 1 * * *'
+
+  # Trigger on push to master and for pull requests targetting master
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+  # Trigger manually from the Actions tab
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  build-documentation:
+    # The type of runner that the job will run on
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check-out the repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+            fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Install prerequisites from the README
+        run: sudo apt install python qttools5-dev-tools wkhtmltopdf python-pypdf2 inkscape
+
+      - name: Print versions
+        run: |
+            python2 --version || true
+            wkhtmltopdf --version --version || true
+            qhelpgenerator --qt=qt4 --version || true
+
+      # GitHub Actions currently uses 18.04 as of 02021-01-31, but will likely update in the future
+      - name: Try to install prerequisites for Ubuntu 20.04 from the README
+        run: sudo apt install qhelpgenerator-qt5 || true
+
+      - name: Install prerequisites for testing
+        run: sudo apt install xvfb
+
+#      - name: Remove existing downloads (for now, because the update.py script seems to not work well)
+#        run: |
+#            rm -rf localwiki revisions.txt updates.txt wikifiles.txt
+#            mkdir localwiki
+#            touch revisions.txt updates.txt wikifiles.txt
+
+      - name: Build an index file containing a list of all the files to download
+        run: python2 ./buildwikiindex.py
+
+      - name: Download wiki pages
+        # Redirect log because it seems we exceed the amount of data GitHub is willing
+        # to show in the interacive logs and there seems to be no UI to access the raw
+        # logs at this time
+        #run: python2 ./downloadwiki.py > ./downloadwiki.py.log
+        run: python2 ./downloadwiki.py
+
+      - name: Create a list of revision IDs for each page
+        run: python2 ./update.py
+
+      - name: Get a list of pages that have changed
+        run: python2 ./update.py
+
+      - name: Download the changed pages (and all their dependencies) again
+        run: python2 ./update.py
+
+      - name: Generate freecad.qhc and freecad.qch files
+        run: python2 ./buildqhelp.py --non-interactive
+
+      - name: Generate freecad.pdf
+        run: python2 ./buildpdf.py
+
+      - name: Split the generated freecad.qch into parts that are smaller than 50Mb (github limit)
+        run: split -d --byte=49M localwiki/freecad.qch localwiki/freecad.qch.part
+
+      - name: Reassemble the previously-split freecad.qch 
+        run: cat localwiki/freecad.qch.part* >> test.qch
+
+      - name: Check that the reassembled test.qch is identical to localwiki/freecad.qch
+        run: diff -q test.qch localwiki/freecad.qch
+
+      - name: Try to open the .qch file
+        run: |
+          xvfb-run assistant -collectionFile localwiki/freecad.qhc &
+          sleep 5
+          killall assistant
+
+      - name: Upload freecad.qch
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: freecad.qch
+          path: localwiki/freecad.qch
+
+      - name: Upload freecad.qhc
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: freecad.qhc
+          path: localwiki/freecad.qhc
+
+      - name: Upload freecad.pdf
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: freecad.pdf
+          path: localwiki/freecad.pdf
+

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/*.pyc
+/__pycache__

buildpdf.py

@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ def joinpdf():
     
     result = PdfFileWriter()
     createCover()
-    inputfile = PdfFileReader(open(FOLDER+os.sep+'Cover.pdf','rb'))
+    inputfile = PdfFileReader(open(os.path.join(FOLDER,'Cover.pdf'),'rb'))
     result.addPage(inputfile.getPage(0))
     count = 1
 
@@ -547,11 +547,14 @@ def createCover():
     "downloads and creates a cover page"
     if VERBOSE: print("fetching " + COVER)
     data = (urlopen(COVER).read())
-    path = FOLDER + os.sep + "Cover.svg"
+    path = os.path.join(FOLDER, "Cover.svg")
     fil = open(path,'wb')
     fil.write(data)
     fil.close()
-    os.system('inkscape --export-pdf='+FOLDER+os.sep+'Cover.pdf'+' '+FOLDER+os.sep+'Cover.svg')
+    if os.system('inkscape --export-pdf='+os.path.join(FOLDER,'Cover.pdf')+' '+os.path.join(FOLDER,'Cover.svg')) == 0:
+        return
+    else:
+        raise Exception('Conversion of Cover.svg to Cover.pdf failed. Is Inkscape installed?')
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

buildqhelp.py

@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ from urllib2 import urlopen, HTTPError
 FOLDER = "./localwiki"
 INDEX = "Online_Help_Toc" # the start page from where to crawl the wiki
 VERBOSE = True # to display what's going on. Otherwise, runs totally silent.
-QHELPCOMPILER = 'qhelpgenerator'
+QHELPCOMPILER = 'qhelpgenerator -qt=qt5'
-QCOLLECTIOMGENERATOR = 'qcollectiongenerator'
+QCOLLECTIOMGENERATOR = 'qcollectiongenerator -qt=qt5'
 RELEASE = '0.17'
 
 #    END CONFIGURATION      ##############################################
@@ -68,7 +68,15 @@ def crawl():
         print("Error at compiling")
         return 1
     if VERBOSE: print("All done!")
-    i=raw_input("Copy the files to their correct location in the source tree? y/n (default=no) ")
+    if "--yes-copy" in sys.argv:
+        i="yes"
+    elif "--no-copy" in sys.argv:
+        i="no"
+    else:
+        try:
+            i=raw_input("Copy the files to their correct location in the source tree? y/n (default=no) ")
+        except:
+            i="no"
     if i.upper() in ["Y","YES"]:
         shutil.copy("localwiki/freecad.qch","../../Doc/freecad.qch")
         shutil.copy("localwiki/freecad.qhc","../../Doc/freecad.qhc")
@@ -82,6 +90,9 @@ def compile(qhpfile):
     if not os.system(QHELPCOMPILER + ' '+qhpfile+' -o '+qchfile):
         if VERBOSE: print("Successfully created",qchfile)
         return 0
+    else:
+        os.system('cat -v ' + qhpfile)
+        raise "Error during generation of freecad.qch"
 
 def generate(qhcpfile):
     "generates qassistant-specific settings like icon, title, ..."
@@ -96,6 +107,9 @@ def generate(qhcpfile):
     if not os.system(QCOLLECTIOMGENERATOR+' '+qhcpfile+' -o '+qhcfile):
         if VERBOSE: print("Successfully created ",qhcfile)
         return 0
+    else:
+        os.system('cat -v ' + qhcpfile)
+        raise "Error during generation of freecad.qhc"
 
 def createCollProjectFile():
     qprojectfile = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
@@ -234,5 +248,5 @@ def buildtoc():
     return qfilename
     
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-	crawl()
+	exit(crawl())