Re: [PATCH] docs: remove devhelp API docs

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On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 01:34:37PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> We currently generate two completely separate API references for the
> libvirt public API. One at 'docs/html/' and one at 'docs/devhelp/'.
> Both are published on the website, but we only link to content in
> the 'docs/html/' pages.
> 
> Both are installed in the libvirt-docs sub-RPM, with a full copy
> of the website including 'docs/html/' in /usr/share/docs/libvirt-docs,
> while the 'docs/devhelp/' content goes to /usr/share/gtk-doc/. The
> latter was broken for years until:
> 
>   commit ca6f602546cb28658db05f29bc840e04d22d0947
>   Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date:   Fri May 10 14:54:52 2019 +0200
> 
>     docs: Introduce $(devhelphtml_generated)
> 
>     Our XSLT magic generates one Devhelp-compatible HTML file
>     per documentation module, but so far we have only shipped
>     and installed documentation for virterror.
> 
>     Now that we have $(modules), however, we can generate the
>     list of files the same way we do for regular documentation
>     and make sure we always ship and install everything.
> 
> That this bug went unnoticed for so long is a sign of how few
> people are using the devhelp docs. The only commits to the devhelp
> code since it was first introduced have been fixing various build
> problems that hit.
> 
> The only obvious difference between the two sets of docs is the CSS
> styling in use. Overall devhelp does not look compelling enough to
> justify having two duplicated sets of API docs. Eliminating it will
> reduce the amount of XSL code we are carrying in the tree which is
> an attractive benefit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  docs/Makefile.am         |  38 +--
>  docs/devhelp/devhelp.xsl | 131 ---------
>  docs/devhelp/home.png    | Bin 654 -> 0 bytes
>  docs/devhelp/html.xsl    | 573 ---------------------------------------
>  docs/devhelp/left.png    | Bin 459 -> 0 bytes
>  docs/devhelp/right.png   | Bin 472 -> 0 bytes
>  docs/devhelp/style.css   |  66 -----
>  docs/devhelp/up.png      | Bin 406 -> 0 bytes
>  libvirt.spec.in          |   8 -
>  9 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 815 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 docs/devhelp/devhelp.xsl
>  delete mode 100644 docs/devhelp/home.png
>  delete mode 100644 docs/devhelp/html.xsl
>  delete mode 100644 docs/devhelp/left.png
>  delete mode 100644 docs/devhelp/right.png
>  delete mode 100644 docs/devhelp/style.css
>  delete mode 100644 docs/devhelp/up.png

Nice cleanup, it failed to apply for me but I did the same changes and
looks good.

error: cannot apply binary patch to 'docs/devhelp/home.png' without full index line
error: docs/devhelp/home.png: patch does not apply

This would probably require to use --full-index and/or --binary to
format the patch.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@xxxxxxxxxx>

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