[spec] Ddoc generator issue?

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On Friday, 17 May 2019 at 15:16:49 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Friday, 17 May 2019 at 13:57:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 5/17/19 8:56 AM, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>>> Still - all I want to do is work on the spec. It is very very 
>>> painful.
>>
>> Well it's a large project and installation comes with some 
>> decorum. It's par for the course. To work on the spec is quite 
>> a hardcore thing to do, so don't get discouraged!
>>
>
> I am not discouraged but it is needless pain. But I understand 
> the baggage.
>
>> At a point I wrote an installation script, and others 
>> contributed to it and created this page:
>>
>> https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor
>>
>> I hope you'll find it helpful.
>
> Yes I am actually using that.
>
> Regards

I am sorry, but I can't recommend using Andrei's installation 
script as people seem to run in a lot of errors with it which is 
because the interesting steps are automated, so you don't know 
what failed. It is also outdated and while I fixed it a few 
issues in it (e.g. https://github.com/dlang/tools/pull/324), I 
still don't think we should recommend it to anyone. The wiki 
should suggest digger if one just wants to build DMD master and 
git clones for everything else.

And well yep building dlang.org is a bit tricky, it's not too 
hard either if you just build the 'html' target and follow the 
official instructions here:

https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md