On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Beman Dawes wrote: > At 06:24 PM 2/17/2003, Douglas Gregor wrote: > >Well, you'll have the doc source on your machine, and can generate > whatever > >format you want. > > Where is this documented? How long does it take? It there a way to only > regenerate the files that change, or does the entire Boost docs have to be > generated?
Documented here: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/doc/html/boostbook.html See the "Getting started" section. Unfortunately, if you don't have a *nix box or Cywin, don't bother. The Makefile is the easiest way to do things, because we don't yet have Jam support. > I'd like to give it a try, but need pointers to docs. I don't even have an > XML editor at the moment, let alone any of the other tools. At a minimum, you'll need an XSLT processor. The aforementioned documentation has links & binaries for my preferred processor, which is also available via Cygwin and on many Unix platforms. > >> Seems like a step backward. We have a simple model now. Click on CVS > >> "update" (or equivalent in your favorite client) and you get the latest > >> version of all files. CVS is the only tool needed. > > > >Sure, but we also have documentation that's inconsistent across > libraries, > >not indexable, and unavailable in any format other than HTML. Our current > >simple model is simple for simple uses, but doesn't extend to any more > >advanced cases. > > A system that is too cumbersome to use isn't really more advanced, it is > just a mess. We need to make the new system as easy to use as the old one > or only the masochists will use it. Working on it :) Doug _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
