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Subject: Re: [boost] [iterator] What documentation is actual?
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-08-26 19:40:25


On 08/26/17 22:12, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:
> On 8/26/2017 1:52 PM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While moving next_prior.hpp to Boost.Iterator I've noticed that thete
>> are basically two versions of the documentation in Boost.Iterator: rst
>> and QuickBook. It seems like QuickBook is in progress of being written
>> and is largely a conversion of rst, but is incomplete in some places.
>>
>> I'd like to ask what's the plan about it?
>
> The rst doc is being distributed. I have no idea when the quickbook
> version was begun and why it did not replace the rst doc. I am not even
> sure how the rst doc gets regenerated.

I don't think it does. The Jamfile builds QuickBook, but
iterator/index.html redirects to iterator/doc/index.html (not
iterator/doc/html/index.html) which is committed in git along with other
htmls generated from rst. So essentially QuickBook gets built but not used.


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