Anybody still using the chm docs

[Manu]

On 17 February 2018 at 07:04, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>
> Let's pull the plug, I think everybody agrees that we have more important
> issues than maintaining d.chm and dman (which hasn't been shipped since
> 2.076 anyhow).
> Consider both tools as offered for adoption (as an external service or
> download).
>
> https://github.com/dlang/installer/pull/298



Wait, what? You asked if people used them, found that they did, then pulled
the plug anyway? O_o
Try running WINE on the build machine... it's trivial to setup.
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