On 1/18/15 6:32 AM, Mathias LANG wrote:
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 10:24:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Lately Andrei has worked a lot with improving the dlang.org site in
various ways. To me it getting more clear and clear that Ddoc is not
the right tool for building a web site. Especially the latest
"improvement" [1] shows that it's not a good idea to reinvent the
wheel, especially when it's not an improvement, at all.
Why don't we instead make use of a proper framework both on the server
side and client side. Personally I would go with Ruby on Rails but I
know that most of you here would hate that so a better suggestion
would probably be vibe.d. For the client side I'm thinking Bootstrap
and jQuery.
The biggest reason why I would prefer Rails is because I know
everything that is needed is already implemented and easily available.
I can not say the same thing about vibe.d. But it might be enough for
dlang.org, I don't know.
What do you think?
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
I started to experiment with this. The problem we'll get is that DDOC is
not used only for the website. It generates kindle / mobi / pdf.
So I see 3 paths here:
1) Implement support for generating the existing target using Vibe.d.
2) Use DDOC pages as the content, and make Vibe.d use that.
3) Get rid of the other targets, and distribute Ali's book to those who
want offline references.
IMO 1) is way too much work and too few benefit, 2) seems brittle, so I
would go with 3. But we would have to get Andrei and Walter's approval.
I don't know. So what would be the replacement? BTW turns out that
dlangspec.pdf is downloaded quite a bit. -- Andrei
