Improved Phobos dox

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Sun Sep 15 11:38:36 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 18:31:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 18:25:03 UTC, Vladimir 
> Panteleev wrote:
>> I assume Ddox has failed to be integrated because it was a 
>> server-side process. It also places each symbol in its own 
>> file, which will break existing links. Perhaps it be feasible 
>> to reimplement only its basic index-table functionality in 
>> JavaScript, to replace the word-blob/dropdown?
>
> Admitting that server-side process has failed and moving to JS 
> is akin to accepting failure to do proper documentation at all. 
> Static documentation which requires JS to be conveniently 
> usable is disaster.

Using JS has several disadvantages, but would require much less 
effort for everyone involved. (If effort is not a factor, how 
come we don't have Ddox on dlang.org yet?)


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