On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 10:24:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Lately Andrei has worked a lot with improving the dlang.org
site in various ways. To me it getting more clear and clear
that Ddoc is not the right tool for building a web site.
Especially the latest "improvement" [1] shows that it's not a
good idea to reinvent the wheel, especially when it's not an
improvement, at all.
Why don't we instead make use of a proper framework both on the
server side and client side. Personally I would go with Ruby on
Rails but I know that most of you here would hate that so a
better suggestion would probably be vibe.d. For the client side
I'm thinking Bootstrap and jQuery.
The biggest reason why I would prefer Rails is because I know
everything that is needed is already implemented and easily
available. I can not say the same thing about vibe.d. But it
might be enough for dlang.org, I don't know.
What do you think?
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/m9f558$lbb$1...@digitalmars.com
I started to experiment with this. The problem we'll get is that
DDOC is not used only for the website. It generates kindle / mobi
/ pdf.
So I see 3 paths here:
1) Implement support for generating the existing target using
Vibe.d.
2) Use DDOC pages as the content, and make Vibe.d use that.
3) Get rid of the other targets, and distribute Ali's book to
those who want offline references.
IMO 1) is way too much work and too few benefit, 2) seems
brittle, so I would go with 3. But we would have to get Andrei
and Walter's approval.
