No documentation for core.sys?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 03:40:02 UTC, Shriramana Sharma 
wrote:
> Why isn't there a documentation page 
> http://dlang.org/phobos/core_sys.html whereas lots of other 
> core.* modules are documented?

Because the D build process is f***ed up and the website build 
process is yet another layer of crap on top of it.

I'm sorry to be so harsh, but that's the simple truth of the 
matter. I recently added a new binding module in there and it 
took me, plus the reviewers, like four iterations just to get it 
included in the druntime build correctly (and it is just 
bindings! it doesn't even do anything) and the website build 
duplicates those lists AGAIN.


BTW, I run a D documentation search engine that digs deeper than 
the main page:

http://dpldocs.info/isatty

Stick a function name in there and see what it gives you. For 
isatty, it gives:

core.sys.posix.unistd.isatty
D code»D Builtins»core.sys.posix.unistd


telling you that it is there, though no extra docs are written. 
Then you can try finding it on the real site or just importing it.

It is useful to find the module for functions as tehy move too:

http://dpldocs.info/walkLength

walkLength [4]D code»D Builtins»std.range.primitives

This is a best-effort implementation of $(D length) for any kind 
of range.



Not perfect, but helps to find things. It also has indexed my 
modules:

http://dpldocs.info/simpledisplay.SimpleWindow



The docs aren't really readable there but the indexing helps find 
where to look.