Dead link finding automation

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 15 20:58:55 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 16 April 2016 at 01:13:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 04/15/2016 08:38 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> The macros we use in our documentation are not meant for the 
>> URL
>> structure that DDox uses. This incompatibility creates broken 
>> links.
>
> Can we build ddox with specific macros? We use that technique 
> with latex etc. -- Andrei

Yep, and we do that:

https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/std-ddox.ddoc
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/std-ddox-override.ddoc

Generating URLs is not always necessary with DDox, as it 
automatically turns fully-qualified names into links.


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