where is ddoc.

simendsjo simendsjo at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 04:57:56 PDT 2011


On 21.08.2011 13:38, simendsjo wrote:
> On 21.08.2011 13:32, maarten van damme wrote:
>> as with most tools mentioned on the digitalmars homepage I am unable to
>> find ddoc.
>> I know it exists, judging by the whole page dedicated to it but the tool
>> itself is never mentioned in any download page.
>> Not to offend anyone but the digitalmars homepage really could use some
>> rethinking. It was one of the reasons I almost didn't try d :p
>> I always get lost in it.

D's homepage is stored at github, so if you have any suggestions, you 
could fork/modify/pull-request changes. I don't see any big problems 
with the homepage myself. A better search feature (for phobos) would 
have been nice.

>> It would be great to also have a link to the full phobos documentation
>> generated with candydoc on the digitalmars d page instead of
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/ , candydoc generates something
>> more readable and structured.

Is candydoc still maintained? I see it hasn't been modified in 5 years, 
so I guess it won't work on D2.

> ddoc is embedded in dmd. It doesn't have a standalone executable.
>
> module t;
> /// This is documented
> void main() {}
>
> dmd -D t.d
>
> t.html now contains documentation.



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