Anybody still using the chm docs

Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 16 06:18:23 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 10:58:04 UTC, 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

I still use CHM document as it is absolutely the best solution 
compared to anything else. I think it is a mistake to compare CHM 
with PDF... They are made for different things...

If people want to get rid of PDF, then I propose we start 
providing ePub instead of CHM. That could be the only sane 
alternative to the CHM we have.


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