Move global auxiliary functions into a new Utilities extension.

Change-Id: If0f12b9d28b83080f4435d91b55d70d5cff5d42e
Reviewed-by: Christian Kandeler <christian.kandeler@theqtcompany.com>

2 files changed, 59 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/doc/reference/jsextensions/jsextension-utilities.qdoc b/doc/reference/jsextensions/jsextension-utilities.qdoc
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+
+/*!
+    \contentspage index.html
+    \page jsextension-utilities.html
+    \ingroup list-of-builtin-services
+
+    \title Utilities Service
+    \brief Provides miscellaneous operations.
+
+    The \c Utilities service offers miscellaneous operations.
+
+    \section1 Available Operations
+
+    \section2 getHash
+    \code
+    Utilities.getHash(key: string): string
+    \endcode
+    Calculates a 16-byte hash of the input and returns it.
+    Rules in modules should use this function to find unique locations for output
+    artifacts in the build directory without duplicating the whole directory structure of
+    the respective input file (to deal with the case of two files with the same name in different
+    subdirectories of the same product).
+
+    \section2 rfc1034Identifier
+    \code
+    Utilities.rfc1034Identifier(str: string): string
+    \endcode
+    Returns an RFC 1034 compliant identifier based on the given string by replacing each character
+    that is not Latin alphanumeric or \c{.} with \c{-}.
+*/
diff --git a/doc/reference/jsextensions/jsextensions-general.qdoc b/doc/reference/jsextensions/jsextensions-general.qdoc
index d031dbf52..409b4c838 100644
--- a/doc/reference/jsextensions/jsextensions-general.qdoc
+++ b/doc/reference/jsextensions/jsextensions-general.qdoc
@@ -56,23 +56,6 @@
     Tries to find a variable with the given name in the build environment and returns its value. If
     no such variable could be found, \c undefined is returned.
 
-    \section2 qbs.getHash
-    \code
-    qbs.getHash(key: string): string
-    \endcode
-    Calculates a 16-byte hash of the input and returns it.
-    Rules in modules should use this function to find unique locations for output
-    artifacts in the build directory without duplicating the whole directory structure of
-    the respective input file (to deal with the case of two files with the same name in different
-    subdirectories of the same product).
-
-    \section2 qbs.rfc1034Identifier
-    \code
-    qbs.rfc1034Identifier(str: string): string
-    \endcode
-    Returns an RFC 1034 compliant identifier based on the given string by replacing each character
-    that is not Latin alphanumeric or \c{.} with \c{-}.
-
     \section2 loadFile
     \code
     loadFile(filePath: string): any