Re: Docs in release tarballs

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-24 16:17:20

Ruben Perez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For someone that hasn't been that long involved in Boost, it feels strange to
> distribute the documentation in the same release tarball as the code, specially
> considering the usual complains about "Boost size".
> 
> I'm sure there are reasons behind it, and I'd like to learn about them.
> This is a candid question, out of being a newbie here.

In the beginning, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, documentation consisted
of each library having a heap of .html files in its directory, following no convention
in either naming or placement. So there was no way to have a separate tarball
with the docs, but there wasn't any need either, because Boost was much smaller.