It seems that std library documentation lives in two different directories.

https://dlang.org/phobos/

https://dlang.org/library/

Maybe it's due to historical reasons. Problem is, when I search for a library function in Google, sometimes it points me to library directory, and sometimes it points me to phobos directory.

In fact, when I search "dlang writef", it shows me two urls most relevant.

1. https://dlang.org/library/std/stdio/writef.html

2. https://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio.html

Clicking "format string" hyperlink on first url gives a 404 error. https://dlang.org/library/std/stdio/std_format.html#format-string

The second url is correct. https://dlang.org/phobos/std_format.html#format-string

Is https://dlang.org/library/ deprecated? If so, is it possible to remove it so that it won't confuse noobs like me?

Or if both directories are intented to be used, I'll file a bug instead.

On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:18:38 UTC, Johann wrote:
> Maybe it's due to historical reasons.

It's actually "future" reasons... the /phobos is the original one, and /library was supposed to replace it, but now many years later, /library is still kinda neglected and they both just exist.

This is a reason why I forked the d docs to my site dpldocs.info. Check out its search:

http://dpldocs.info/writef

But yeah, the link in the original source is hardcoded for the /phobos path... but is also a relative link. So when generated on /library, it is just a 404. On my fork, I just fixed it, but /library tries to build from the master branch so they can't really just fix things without making sure it still works in both generators. what a mess.

> Or if both directories are intented to be used, I'll file a bug instead.

yeah that is prolly best

On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:32:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> http://dpldocs.info/writef

Thanks for your good work. I will file a bug report then.

Not related to this thread, but is something missing from this page? Only "index" is shown on this page.

http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/

On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 16:08:38 UTC, Johann wrote:
> Not related to this thread, but is something missing from this page? Only "index" is shown on this page.

No, that's just a random file. If something isn't linked from another page, it isn't supported... I have a lot of files in that directory from various steps in my development process (it is still called "experimental" cuz it isn't done yet) and I haven't cleaned them all up.

On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:32:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:18:38 UTC, Johann wrote:
>> Maybe it's due to historical reasons.
>
> It's actually "future" reasons... the /phobos is the original one, and /library was supposed to replace it, but now many years later, /library is still kinda neglected and they both just exist.

What's needed to remove the "/phobos" one? Is it a decision from on-high, or is there a lot of editing of hardcoded links required?

> This is a reason why I forked the d docs to my site dpldocs.info. Check out its search:
>
> http://dpldocs.info/writef
>
> But yeah, the link in the original source is hardcoded for the /phobos path... but is also a relative link. So when generated on /library, it is just a 404. On my fork, I just fixed it, but /library tries to build from the master branch so they can't really just fix things without making sure it still works in both generators. what a mess.

I'm not sure I understand. What would it take to make the "/library" pages good enough that you wouldn't need <http://dpldocs.info/writef>?

On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 19:38:45 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
> On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:32:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:18:38 UTC, Johann wrote:
>>> Maybe it's due to historical reasons.
>>
>> It's actually "future" reasons... the /phobos is the original one, and /library was supposed to replace it, but now many years later, /library is still kinda neglected and they both just exist.
>
> What's needed to remove the "/phobos" one? Is it a decision from on-high, or is there a lot of editing of hardcoded links required?

This discussion and the referenced news group thread should give insights:

https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1526

BTW the fix for your issue is here:

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6055

On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 at 19:05:21 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 19:38:45 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
>> On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:32:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:18:38 UTC, Johann wrote:
>>>> Maybe it's due to historical reasons.
>>>
>>> It's actually "future" reasons... the /phobos is the original one, and /library was supposed to replace it, but now many years later, /library is still kinda neglected and they both just exist.
>>
>> What's needed to remove the "/phobos" one? Is it a decision from on-high, or is there a lot of editing of hardcoded links required?
>
> This discussion and the referenced news group thread should give insights:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1526
>

Thank you!