On Friday, 15 April 2016 at 18:25:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Can we automate stuff like
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15929? There are quite
a few tools around, not to mention we could easily roll our
own. Who'd like to take this project? Thx! -- Andrei
It's something I've been thinking about for a while.
This particular case is a DDox deficiency. The macros we use in
our documentation are not meant for the URL structure that DDox
uses. This incompatibility creates broken links. People have
stepped up with PRs to replace them with better macros, which
will work in DDox as well, so it's an area of active improvement.
chmgen reports broken internal links (for stuff that goes into
the CHM, which is based on the DDoc Phobos documentation format,
thus it wouldn't find the above broken DDox link). I've been
planning into integrating it into the documentation tester, so
that new broken internal links result in a test failure.
External links are a different issue. They can't be tested in the
autotester (at least not fail the build), otherwise a site we
link to going (temporarily) down means our master is broken. They
would need special treatment, e.g. report them as some form of
warnings but don't fail them.
