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Miscellaneous => Documentation (Maintaining -) => Topic started by: dsiders on August 26, 2020, 08:37:21 pm

Title: [Solved] When do docs on source forge get updated?
Post by: dsiders on August 26, 2020, 08:37:21 pm: WHat determines when the documentation host on source forge (https://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.io/docs/) gets updated? It doesn't appear to be new releases.

The FPC and RTL items are from 2017, and do not appear to be FPC 3.2.0.

LCL and LazUtils do not use date stamps in the footer, so it's difficult to tell their origin. But again, it doesn't seem to be a new release. These are problematic since they differ substantially from the CHM versions.

Just curious.
Title: Re: When do docs on source forge get updated?
Post by: Thaddy on August 26, 2020, 08:52:39 pm: Probably a wrong link, because the FPC 3.2.0 sources are from 2020. Note I do not follow Lazarus docs (poor) but the FPC doc sources are current and excellent.
https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html

Also note you can build the most recent trunk doc sources yourself.
Title: Re: When do docs on source forge get updated?
Post by: dsiders on August 26, 2020, 09:19:11 pm: Quote from: Thaddy on August 26, 2020, 08:52:39 pm
Probably a wrong link, because the FPC 3.2.0 sources are from 2020. Note I do not follow Lazarus docs (poor) but the FPC doc sources are current and excellent.
https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html

I had not noticed that they were 2 different sites. Good to know... but also another fly in the ointment.
But I agree, the FPC documentation is generally of much better quality.

The Source Forge site is the only online option for LCL and LazUtils. And if they seem to be poor and out-of-date, that would be because the they are not tracking changes that have to started to appear in the CHM versions.

Quote from: Thaddy on August 26, 2020, 08:52:39 pm
Also note you can build the most recent trunk doc sources yourself.

Yes, I know. I do that from time to time for LCL and LazUtils to verify/track changes being submitted to SVN. You know... it compiles so it must be alright. :)

But that doesn't get the HTML files rebuilt or uploaded to Source Forge. Hence... my question.
Title: Re: When do docs on source forge get updated?
Post by: marcov on August 26, 2020, 09:26:27 pm: Please file a bug with Lazarus-ccr in mantis (not on SF).
Title: Re: When do docs on source forge get updated?
Post by: dsiders on August 26, 2020, 09:50:56 pm: Quote from: marcov on August 26, 2020, 09:26:27 pm
Please file a bug with Lazarus-ccr in mantis (not on SF).

https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37642
Title: Re: When do docs on source forge get updated?
Post by: dsiders on February 11, 2022, 08:21:05 am: Quote from: dsiders on August 26, 2020, 09:50:56 pm
Quote from: marcov on August 26, 2020, 09:26:27 pm
Please file a bug with Lazarus-ccr in mantis (not on SF).

https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37642

In the interim, another alternative is available at: https://dsiders.gitlab.io/lazdocsnext/. It is the analog of the FPC daily documentation at https://www.freepascal.org/daily/daily.html. But it includes the entire content for the help files.
Title: Re: [Solved] When do docs on source forge get updated?
Post by: MarkMLl on February 11, 2022, 12:08:29 pm: As a related issue, https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html still points to an FTP server which no longer exists.

MarkMLl
Title: Re: [Solved] When do docs on source forge get updated?
Post by: PascalDragon on February 11, 2022, 12:38:31 pm: Quote from: MarkMLl on February 11, 2022, 12:08:29 pm
As a related issue, https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html still points to an FTP server which no longer exists.

Normally I'd suggest to file a bug report on the website project (https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/website), but that doesn't have issues enabled...