Re: Proposal: Abandoning monolithic Boost documentation.

From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-04-23 09:00:56

>> For pdf, I don't think it would be easy or at all
>> possible to generate a single pdf from multiple libraries. Though I
>> doubt there is any demand for that nowdays.
>
> I talked to some users at a conference maybe 15 years ago.  The 
> expressed great affection for the pdf version of the docs.  I also 
> very much like pdf for other non-boost projects I work on. 

As the person who used to generate those PDF's, I can tall you it was a 
right pain to do, plus there seemed to be very few downloads... that 
might be a chicken and egg situation though.  If it was all automated 
and run on CI that might make it viable again I guess.

And yes, by all means modularize the docs, I don't think there were ever 
that many libraries in the old "monolithic" build anyway?

John.