[lldb-dev] [RFC] Using Sphinx to generate documentation

[Raphael Isemann via lldb-dev]

I think if we want to actually lower the entry barrier for
contributing/fixing things on the website, then the server should do
this. From what I know the other LLVM projects also generate the HTML
on the server (at least I've never seen anyone commit generated HTML
files), so this hopefully shouldn't be too complicated.

I think in general this approach is really nice. Thanks a lot for the
work @Jonas!

- Raphael


Am Fr., 7. Dez. 2018 um 09:06 Uhr schrieb Pavel Labath via lldb-dev
<lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
>
> On 06/12/2018 18:02, Jonas Devlieghere via lldb-dev wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > The current LLDB website is written in HTML which is hard to maintain.
> > We have quite a bit of HTML code checked in which can make it hard to
> > differentiate between documentation written by us and documentation
> > generated by a tool. Furthermore I think text/RST files provide a lower
> > barrier for new or casual contributors to fix or update.
> >
> > In line with the other LLVM projects I propose generating the
> > documentation with Sphix. I created a patch
> > (https://reviews.llvm.org/D55376) that adds a new target docs-lldb-html
> > when -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX:BOOL is enabled. I've ported over some pages
> > to give an idea of what this would look like in-tree. Before continuing
> > with this rather tedious work I'd like to get feedback form the community.
> >
> > Initially I started with the theme used by Clang because it's a default
> > theme and doesn't require configuration. If we want to keep the sidebar
> > we could use the one used by LLD.
> >
> > Please let me know what you think.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jonas
> >
>
> Woohoo!
>
> Just to be clear, is the idea to still check in the resulting html files
> to remain compatible with how http://lldb.llvm.org (I have no idea who
> maintains that) works, or do you want to change that as well (e.g., by
> having the server generate the html files locally).
>
> pl
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