Anybody still using the chm docs

rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 15 04:03:21 PDT 2016


On 15/06/2016 10:58 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> It's a huge maintenance effort for us to produce the chm files.
> We no longer generate documentation on Windows, but just for the chm
> generation we have dedicated tools [¹] to create an index (from a json
> generated via ddoc) and copy the html files.
> So I'm wondering if in 2016 someone really needs an offline copy of a
> website shipped with a binary release?
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1374
>
> [¹]:
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/7cc6e938154f90aa49fa6451a85b13e35ab2de99/chmgen.d

As long as pdf is still being generated I see no reason to not drop it. 
Cost vs benefit.



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