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?
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1374
[¹]:
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/7cc6e938154f90aa49fa6451a85b13e35ab2de99/chmgen.d
I still use CHM document as it is absolutely the best solution
compared to anything else. I think it is a mistake to compare CHM
with PDF... They are made for different things...
If people want to get rid of PDF, then I propose we start
providing ePub instead of CHM. That could be the only sane
alternative to the CHM we have.
