Re: [boost] [review] Formal review period for VMD library begins today, Aug 21, and ends Sat, Aug 30

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Formal review period for VMD library begins today, Aug 21, and ends Sat, Aug 30
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-22 11:30:37

On 22 August 2014 16:11, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 8/22/2014 9:36 AM, Daniel James wrote:
>>
>> On 22 August 2014 14:21, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/22/2014 8:20 AM, Niall Douglas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21 Aug 2014 at 21:24, Edward Diener wrote:
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/eldiener/variadic_macro_data/master/doc/html/index.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Firstly that viewer kept failing for me, so I gave up quite quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What failure do you get ? Maybe I can reproduce it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't work at all for me on Chrome.
>>>>
>>>> With IE it somewhat works, but from time to time the github website
>>>> says it is overloaded and please try again later. This is irritating.
>>>> It could be that European users get different servers to US users.
>>>
>>>
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>>> I use Firefox and am in the US and it seems to work for me.
>>
>>
>> It might work better to create a 'gh-pages' branch for use with github
>> pages. I did that here:
>>
>> https://github.com/boostorg/quickbook/tree/gh-pages
>
>
> Do you mean a separate branch just for the documentation ? In this case how
> does it help things since your link just below seems the same use of
> 'http://boostorg.github.io' etc, as I show in my original reply about
> reading the VMD docs online. Is it less bandwith do you mean ? In that case
> I will be glad to create a separate branch just for the documentation.

It's not the same system. Htmlpreview is implement in client side
javascript and uses a yahoo service to get the files from the github
api. It's not actually a github service, they're just running it on
github's servers. Github pages creates some sort of static site on
github's servers - so it requires less work for them than handling api
requests. All you need to do is create a gh-pages branch containing
whatever you wish to serve (in my case it's just branched from a
feature branch with the generated html checked in). Github will then
create a site. I think it will be at:

http://eldiener.github.io/variadic_macro_data/doc/html/index.html