Cross-platform documentation

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On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 07:12:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Currently the documentation for Phobos and druntime is 
> generated on (I'm guessing) Linux. This can sometimes cause 
> problems when platform specific declarations are removed due to 
> them not being available on Linux. Sometimes it looks even 
> worse when none of the declarations are available on Linux [1].
>
> How feasible would it be to generate cross-platform 
> documentation by generating the docs on all platforms. For a 
> given module, diff the all versions generated by the different 
> platforms. If there's a difference, generate a button for each 
> version. The button will show the documentation for that 
> particular platform.
>
> [1] http://dlang.org/phobos/core_attribute.html

I just ran into this yesterday wondering why the official 
documentation doesn't list any of the Windows stuff, then it hit 
me. It's definitely annoying.