diff --git a/src/makesrcdist.sh b/src/makesrcdist.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a2c7e66..00000000
--- a/src/makesrcdist.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,171 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2005 J.F.Dockes
-# A shell-script to make a recoll source distribution
-
-fatal() {
-    echo $*
-    exit 1
-}
-usage() {
-    echo 'Usage: makescrdist.sh -t -s do_it'
-    echo ' -t : no tagging'
-    echo ' -s : snapshot release: use date instead of VERSION'
-    echo ' -s implies -t'
-    exit 1
-}
-tagtopsvn() {
-    (cd ..; svn copy -m "Release $version tagged" . $SVNREPOS/tags/$1) \
-    	|| fatal tag failed
-}
-tagtophg() {
-    hg tag -m "Release $version tagged" $1 || fatal tag failed
-}
-tagexists() {
-    hg tags | cut -d' ' -f 1 | egrep '^'$1'$'
-}
-tagtop() {
-    tagtophg $*
-}
-
-#set -x
-
-TAR=${TAR-/bin/tar}
-
-#VCCMD=svn
-#SVNREPOS=svn+ssh://y/home/subversion/recoll/
-
-VCCMD=hg
-
-if test ! -d qtgui;then
-    echo "Should be executed in the master recoll directory"
-    exit 1
-fi
-targetdir=${targetdir-/tmp}
-dotag=${dotag-yes}
-snap=${snap-no}
-
-if ! test configure -nt configure.ac -a configure -nt VERSION ;then
-    set -x
-    rm -f configure
-    autoconf || exit 1
-    set +x
-fi
-
-while getopts ts o
-do	case "$o" in
-	t)	dotag=no;;
-	s)	snap=yes;dotag=no;;
-	[?])	usage;;
-	esac
-done
-shift `expr $OPTIND - 1`
-
-test $dotag = "yes" -a $snap = "yes" && usage
-
-test $# -eq 1 || usage
-
-echo dotag $dotag snap $snap
-
-if test $snap = yes ; then
-# The id would be nicer but it's not increasing which is a problem for
-# the exp package repo
-#  version=`hg id | awk '{print $1}'`
-   version=`hg summary | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/ //g'`
-  versionforcvs=$version
-  TAG=""
-else
-  version=`cat VERSION`
-  versionforcvs=`echo $version | sed -e 's/\./_/g'`
-  TAG="RECOLL_$versionforcvs"
-fi
-
-if test "$dotag" = "yes" ; then
-  echo Creating AND TAGGING version $versionforcvs
-  tagexists $TAG  && fatal "Tag $TAG already exists"
-else
-  echo Creating version $versionforcvs, no tagging
-fi
-sleep 2
-
-editedfiles=`$VCCMD status . | egrep -v '^\?'`
-if test "$dotag" = "yes" -a ! -z "$editedfiles"; then
-  fatal  "Edited files exist: " $editedfiles
-fi
-
-
-case $version in
-*.*.*) releasename=recoll-$version;;
-*) releasename=betarecoll-$version;;
-esac
-
-topdir=$targetdir/$releasename
-if test ! -d $topdir ; then
-    mkdir $topdir || exit 1
-else 
-    echo "Removing everything under $topdir Ok ? (y/n)"
-    read rep 
-    if test $rep = 'y';then
-    	rm -rf $topdir/*
-    fi
-fi
-
-################################### Documentation
-###### Html doc
-RECOLLDOC=${RECOLLDOC:=doc/user}
-(cd $RECOLLDOC; make) || exit 1
-
-###### Text Doc
-chmod +w README INSTALL
-cat <<EOF > README
-
-More documentation can be found in the doc/ directory or at http://www.recoll.org
-
-
-EOF
-cat <<EOF > INSTALL
-
-More documentation can be found in the doc/ directory or at http://www.recoll.org
-
-
-EOF
-
-echo "Dumping html documentation to text files"
-links -dump ${RECOLLDOC}/usermanual.html >> README
-
-links -dump ${RECOLLDOC}/RCL.INSTALL.html >> INSTALL
-links -dump ${RECOLLDOC}/RCL.INSTALL.EXTERNAL.html >> INSTALL
-links -dump ${RECOLLDOC}/RCL.INSTALL.BUILDING.html >> INSTALL
-links -dump ${RECOLLDOC}/RCL.INSTALL.CONFIG.html >> INSTALL
-
-$VCCMD commit -m "release $version" README INSTALL
-
-# Clean up this dir and copy the dist-specific files 
-make distclean
-yes | clean.O
-rm -f lib/*.dep
-# Possibly clean up the cmake stuff
-(cd kde/kioslave/kio_recoll/ || exit 1
-rm -rf CMakeCache.txt CMakeFiles/ CMakeTmp/ CPack* CTestTestfile.cmake cmake_* *automoc* lib builddir)
-
-$TAR chfX - excludefile .  | (cd $topdir;$TAR xf -)
-if test $snap = "yes" ; then
-    echo $version > $topdir/VERSION
-fi
-
-# Can't now put ./Makefile in excludefile, gets ignored everywhere. So delete
-# the top Makefile here (its' output by configure on the target system):
-rm -f $topdir/Makefile
-
-out=$releasename.tar.gz
-(cd $targetdir ; \
-    $TAR chf - $releasename | \
-    	gzip > $out)
-echo "$targetdir/$out created"
-
-# Check manifest against current reference
-export LANG=C
-tar tzf $targetdir/$out | sort | cut -d / -f 2- | \
-    diff mk/manifest.txt - || fatal "Please fix file list mk/manifest.txt"
-
-# We tag .. as there is the 'packaging/' directory in there
-[ $dotag = "yes" ] && tagtop $TAG
diff --git a/src/makestaticdist.sh b/src/makestaticdist.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index d268b8da..00000000
--- a/src/makestaticdist.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#set -x
-# A shell-script to make a recoll static binary distribution:
-
-fatal()
-{
-    echo $*;exit 1
-}
-
-TAR=tar
- 
-targetdir=${targetdir-/tmp}
-
-if test ! -d qtgui;then
-    echo "Should be executed in the master recoll directory"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-version=`cat VERSION`
-sys=`uname -s`
-sysrel=`uname -r`
-
-qtguiassign=`egrep '^QTGUI=' recollinstall`
-stripassign=`egrep '^STRIP=' recollinstall`
-test ! -z "$qtguiassign" || fatal "Can't find qt version"
-test ! -z "$stripassign" || fatal "Can't find strip string"
-eval $qtguiassign
-eval $stripassign
-echo "QTGUI: " $QTGUI "STRIP: " $STRIP
-
-topdirsimple=recoll-${version}-${sys}-${sysrel}
-topdir=$targetdir/$topdirsimple
-
-tarfile=$targetdir/recoll-${version}-${sys}-${sysrel}.tgz
-
-if test ! -d $topdir ; then
-    mkdir $topdir || exit 1
-else 
-    echo "Removing everything under $topdir Ok ? (y/n)"
-    read rep 
-    if test $rep = 'y';then
-    	rm -rf $topdir/*
-    else
-	exit 1
-    fi
-fi
-
-rm -f index/recollindex ${QTGUI}/recoll
-
-make static || exit 1
-
-${STRIP} index/recollindex ${QTGUI}/recoll
-
-files="
-COPYING 
-INSTALL 
-Makefile 
-README 
-VERSION 
-desktop 
-desktop/recoll-searchgui.desktop
-desktop/recoll.png 
-doc/man
-doc/user 
-filters 
-index/rclmon.sh 
-index/recollindex 
-qtgui/i18n/*.qm 
-qtgui/images
-qtgui/mtpics/*.png 
-qtgui/recoll 
-recollinstall
-sampleconf 
-"
-
-$TAR chf - $files  | (cd $topdir; $TAR xf -)
-
-# Remove any install dependancy
-chmod +w $topdir/Makefile || exit 1
-sed -e '/^install:/c\
-install: ' < $topdir/Makefile > $topdir/toto && \
-	 mv $topdir/toto $topdir/Makefile
-
-# Clean up .svn directories from target. This would be easier with a
-# --exclude tar option, but we want this to work with non-gnu tars
-cd $topdir || exit 1
-svndirs=`find . -name .svn -print`
-echo "In: `pwd`. Removing $svndirs ok ?"
-read rep 
-test "$rep" = 'y' -o "$rep" = 'Y' && rm -rf $svndirs
-
-cd $targetdir
-
-(cd $targetdir ; \
-    $TAR chf - $topdirsimple | \
-    	gzip > $tarfile)
-
-echo $tarfile created
diff --git a/src/recollinstall.in b/src/recollinstall.in
deleted file mode 100755
index d155b410..00000000
--- a/src/recollinstall.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,166 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# Install recoll files.
-
-fatal()
-{
-    echo $*
-    exit 1
-}
-usage()
-{
-    fatal 'Usage: recollinstall [<prefixdir>], ie: recollinstall /usr/local'
-}
-
-if test $# -eq 0 ; then
-   PREFIX=@prefix@
-elif test $# -eq 1 ; then
-   PREFIX=$1
-else
-   usage
-fi
-QTGUI=@QTGUI@
-# The .qm files are in qtgui/i18n even if qt4 is used
-I18N=qtgui/i18n
-
-RCLLIBVERSION=@RCLLIBVERSION@
-
-test -n "$bindir" || bindir=${PREFIX}/bin
-test -n "$libdir" || libdir=${PREFIX}/lib
-test -n "$datadir" || datadir=${PREFIX}/share
-if test -z "$mandir" ; then 
-   if test -d ${PREFIX}/man ; then
-      mandir=${PREFIX}/man
-   else
-      mandir=${datadir}/man
-   fi
-fi
-
-REALPREFIX=$PREFIX
-ROOTFORPYTHON=""
-if test -n "$DESTDIR" ; then
-   PREFIX=$DESTDIR/$PREFIX
-   bindir=$DESTDIR/$bindir
-   libdir=$DESTDIR/$libdir
-   datadir=$DESTDIR/$datadir
-   mandir=$DESTDIR/$mandir
-   ROOTFORPYTHON="--root=${DESTDIR}"
-fi
-if test -f /etc/debian_version ; then
-   OPTSFORPYTHON=--install-layout=deb
-fi
-
-echo "Installing to $PREFIX"
-
-# Note: solaris 'install' does not understand -v
-INSTALL=${INSTALL:="install -c"}
-STRIP=${STRIP:=strip}
-
-sys=`uname`
-@NOQTMAKE@if test "$sys" = Darwin ; then
-@NOQTMAKE@    RECOLLPROG=${QTGUI}/recoll.app/Contents/MacOS/recoll
-@NOQTMAKE@else
-@NOQTMAKE@    RECOLLPROG=${QTGUI}/recoll
-@NOQTMAKE@fi
-
-TESTPROG=index/recollindex
-test -x $TESTPROG || fatal "$TESTPROG does not exist." \
-     " You need to build first (type 'make')."
-
-for d in \
-    ${bindir} \
-    ${libdir} \
-    ${libdir}/recoll \
-    ${mandir}/man1 \
-    ${mandir}/man5 \
-    ${datadir}/icons \
-    ${datadir}/recoll/doc \
-    ${datadir}/recoll/examples \
-    ${datadir}/recoll/filters \
-    ${datadir}/recoll/images \
-    ${datadir}/recoll/translations \
-    ${datadir}/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps \
-    ${datadir}/pixmaps
-do
-    test -d $d || mkdir -p $d || exit 1
-done
-
-@NOQTMAKE@test -d ${datadir}/applications \
-@NOQTMAKE@  || mkdir -p ${datadir}/applications || exit 1
-@NOQTMAKE@test -d ${datadir}/appdata \
-@NOQTMAKE@  || mkdir -p ${datadir}/appdata || exit 1
-
-# Use the xdg utilies to install the desktop file and icon? Couldn't find
-# out how to get this to work sanely. So keep the old way
-#PATH=$PATH:desktop/xdg-utils-1.0.1/scripts
-#export PATH
-#xdg-desktop-menu install desktop/recoll-searchgui.desktop
-#xdg-icon-resource install --size 48 desktop/recoll.png
-@NOQTMAKE@${INSTALL} -m 0444 desktop/recoll.appdata.xml ${datadir}/appdata
-@NOQTMAKE@${INSTALL} -m 0444 desktop/recoll-searchgui.desktop ${datadir}/applications
-@NOQTMAKE@${INSTALL} -m 0444 desktop/recoll.png ${datadir}/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
-@NOQTMAKE@${INSTALL} -m 0444 desktop/recoll.png ${datadir}/pixmaps/
-
-if test -f doc/user/usermanual.html ; then
-    ${INSTALL} -m 0444 doc/user/usermanual.html doc/user/docbook-xsl.css \
-			${datadir}/recoll/doc 
-else
-    echo "User manual not found -> not installed"
-fi
-
-@NOQTMAKE@${INSTALL} -m 0444 doc/man/recoll.1 ${mandir}/man1/
-# Install the recollq man page in all cases, it's useful for recoll -t
-${INSTALL} -m 0444 doc/man/recollq.1 ${mandir}/man1/
-${INSTALL} -m 0444 doc/man/recollindex.1 ${mandir}/man1/
-${INSTALL} -m 0444 doc/man/recoll.conf.5  ${mandir}/man5/
-
-@NOQTMAKE@${INSTALL} -m 0755 ${RECOLLPROG} ${bindir} || exit 1
-@NOQTMAKE@${STRIP} ${bindir}/recoll 
-@NOCMDLINE@${INSTALL} -m 0755 query/recollq ${bindir} || exit 1
-@NOCMDLINE@${STRIP} ${bindir}/recollq 
-${INSTALL} -m 0755 index/recollindex ${bindir} || exit 1
-${STRIP} ${bindir}/recollindex
-
-@NODYNLIB@${INSTALL} -m 0644 lib/librecoll.so.${RCLLIBVERSION} \
-@NODYNLIB@    ${libdir}/recoll/ || exit 1
-
-${INSTALL} -m 0755 filters/rcl* ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
-${INSTALL} -m 0555 filters/ppt-dump.py ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
-${INSTALL} -m 0555 filters/xls-dump.py ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
-${INSTALL} -m 0555 filters/xlsxmltocsv.py ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
-
-${INSTALL} -m 0444 filters/msodump.zip ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
-for f in rclexecm.py rcllatinstops.zip;do
-    chmod 644 ${datadir}/recoll/filters/$f
-done
-
-${INSTALL} -m 0755 desktop/xdg-utils-1.0.1/scripts/xdg-open \
-	   ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
-${INSTALL} -m 0755 desktop/hotrecoll.py \
-	   ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
-${INSTALL} -m 0644 python/recoll/recoll/rclconfig.py \
-	   ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
-
-${INSTALL} -m 0444 \
-           desktop/recollindex.desktop \
-           sampleconf/fragbuts.xml \
-	   sampleconf/mimeconf \
-	   sampleconf/mimeview \
-	   sampleconf/recoll.conf \
-           sampleconf/mimemap \
-           sampleconf/fields \
-           sampleconf/recoll.qss \
-	   ${datadir}/recoll/examples/ || exit 1
-${INSTALL} -m 0755 index/rclmon.sh ${datadir}/recoll/examples/ || exit 1
-
-
-${INSTALL} -m 0444 qtgui/mtpics/*.png ${datadir}/recoll/images || exit 1
-
-${INSTALL} -m 0444 ${I18N}/recoll*.qm ${datadir}/recoll/translations || exit 1
-# Install the simplified chinese file as just chinese until I can understand
-# if it's possible to have both. zh_CN doesn't seem to work
-${INSTALL} -m 0444 ${I18N}/recoll_zh_CN.qm \
-    ${datadir}/recoll/translations/recoll_zh.qm || exit 1
-
-
-@NOPYTHON@(cd python/recoll;python setup.py install \
-@NOPYTHON@ --prefix=${REALPREFIX} ${ROOTFORPYTHON} ${OPTSFORPYTHON})