[LLVMdev] [RFC] Moving to Sphinx for LLVM and friends documentation (with partial implementation (in both 10pt and 12pt font)).

[David A. Greene]

OvermindDL1 <overminddl1 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 3:42 PM, OvermindDL1 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:09 PM, David A. Greene <greened at obbligato.org> wrote:
>>>> OvermindDL1 <overminddl1 at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Correction, even the zip by itself is too big, here is the 7z, if
>>>>> someone wants a giant zip, I can host it somewhere...
>>>>
>>>> Please do.  7z is not supported on Linux.  I would love to take a look
>>>> at this, but I can't.  :(
>>>
>>> 7z is supported just fine on Linux, I use it all the time, and it
>>> compresses text like that a heck of a lot better then zip (about a 4:1
>>> ratio).  But I will still put the zip up on my server, now at url:
>>>  http://www.overminddl1.com/stuff/llvm_doc.zip
>>
>> Requiring people to get and install boost to work on docs is a non-starter.
>>
>> What is wrong with sphinx?
>
> They would not need to, as stated, it is simple to take what is needed
> thanks to bcp, only thing needed is docbook, which is a *lot* more
> prevalent than Sphinx and more well known.  The useful thing about
> quickbook over Sphinx is it is designed for C++ project documentation
> in a variety of formats, from html pages, single html document, pdf,
> man pages, straight docbook, etc...

What he said.

And the fact that Boostbook knows how to import Doxygen XML output is a
killer feature.  Having a hardcopy of the Doxygen reference can be
really useful.

I agree with Chris that at the moment, BoostBook/QuickBook is too hard
to set up.  I'm certainly not about to use bcp magic and litter my
workspace with it.  Get it packaged separately and it's a winner, I
think.  A nice Debian package would do wonders.

                                -Dave