Re: HTML version of documentation - Store using SVN or leave users to build

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Daniel James
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:46 AM
> To: Discussion of Boost Documentation
> Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] HTML version of documentation - Store using SVN or leave users to build
> 
> On 7 September 2011 10:02, Paul A. Bristow >
> >
> > But that doesn't answer the need for people to be able to read the
> > html without generating it themselves (requiring Quickbook, Doxygen
> > Autoindex, bjam ...)
> 
> Can't you just upload them to a web server and include them in the zipfile? I think sourceforge,
github and
> bitbucket all have free static hosting for open source projects. You could ask to be added to the
boost-
> sandbox sourceforge project, although github and bitbucket look easier to setup. For sourceforge
you
> need to set up ssh keys and rsync, which is a bit of a pain.

Well I noted that many people seemed to be doing something like that, but it seemed a most untidy
solution, when the main project files are in Boost-sandbox.  And a hassle, for the author and
readers?
 
> By the way, when building doxygen/boostbook based documentation, you should delete the previously
> generated html files as the names aren't consistent so you end up with duplicates.

Indeed a hazard, as I have already discovered.

Would a zip of the html docs be better?

Just trying to find the 'right' thing to do.

Paul

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