Re: [Boost-docs] Automatically generating libs/libraries.htm

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Automatically generating libs/libraries.htm
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-09 12:21:43

On 5/9/2016 6:24 AM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 6 May 2016 at 12:56, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> I think it is better to check in the template and just specify how to
>> generate the library list from the template.
>
> Okay, I wouldn't want to check the php template into the repo, so I
> converted it to use a subset of Mustache template language. That way
> it should be easy to script using other languages as there are a lot
> of Mustache implementations out there. The template file is currently
> at:
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/website/blob/master/common/code/templates/libraries.htm
>
> I haven't actually used proper Mustache yet, so I might have got the
> syntax wrong, I'll check it later. I'll move into the super-project
> once everything is in place.
>
> I've created a little API for generating pages:
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/generate.php?page=libs/libraries.htm&version=master
> http://www.boost.org/doc/generate.php?page=libs/libraries.htm&version=1.60.0

I don't see anyhing in either of the above links which is an API for 
generating pages.

>
> So for now all the release script will have to do is download the
> file. We might want to do something a bit smarter later on, as there
> are a few other files which could do with similar automatic
> generation.
>