DMD is now part of the doc pages on dlang.org

[Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d]

No idea how much work it is to add another section specifically for the 
front end, but the front end docs really don't belong co-mingled with 
the phobos and library directories.  It's part of neither.

On 6/6/17 3:13 PM, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have excellent news on the front of DMD becoming a library.
> 
> DMD on dlang.org
> ----------------
> 
> Since today DMD's documentation is browseable online on the released docs:
> 
> Ddoc: https://dlang.org/phobos/ddmd_mars.html
> Ddox: https://dlang.org/library/ddmd/mars.html
> 
> In particular this is pretty handy with DDox's symbol search (top 
> right), see e.g. [2] for example screenshots.
> I guess that not many people noticed, but the prereleases pages (i.e. 
> the current master branch) contained the DMD pages for quite some time:
> 
> Ddoc: https://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/ddmd_mars.html
> Ddox: https://dlang.org/library-prerelease/ddmd/mars.html
> 
> Status quo
> ----------
> 
> Many pages aren't well-documented for now and the blacklist of exposed 
> modules [3] needs some expansion as well.
> However, fixing these pages is now just a PR away (see the "Improve this 
> page" button on the top-right).
> 
> Building DMD documentation pages
> --------------------------------
> 
> If you build the pages yourself, you will be interested in the 
> `-prerelease` ones as they are built from latest (i.e. your local dmd 
> repository).
> Just clone dlang.org and for the Ddoc pages, execute the 
> `dmd-prerelease` target:
> 
> make -f posix.mak dmd-prerelease html
> 
> Of course the `html` target is only needed once and don't get confused 
> by the files being in web/phobos-prerelease.
> Or alternatively with Ddox (and the files being in web/library-prerelease):
> 
> make -f posix.mak apidocs-prerelease
> 
> There's also a bit hidden target that will spawn a Vibe.d instance and 
> is faster to start as it only renders a documentation page on-demand:
> 
> make -f posix.mak apidocs-serve
> 
> Other work
> ----------
> 
> - Jacob is putting a ton of effort into making DMD easily accessible via 
> DUB [4]
> - Razvan is making sure that you can use the resulting library [5]
> 
> [1] Enable DMD docs on dlang.org PR: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1671
> [2] DDox search examples : http://imgur.com/a/lddjt
> [3] Module blacklist: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/posix.mak#L73
> [4] DMD as DUB package PR: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6771
> [5] DMD as a library PR: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6836