[vtk-developers] Static pages for VTKExamples

Ben Boeckel ben.boeckel at kitware.com
Mon May 15 14:33:29 EDT 2017


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 18:09:28 +0000, Andras Lasso wrote:
> Versioning may be a one of the most difficult problem to solve. We use
> MediaWiki to maintain Slicer documentation and we've found that
> maintaining up-to-date documentation for multiple versions is
> unsustainable (you have to create a large number of wiki pages for
> each software version), creates confusion (as Google keeps directing
> users to pages belonging to random software versions), and limits
> access (you cannot distribute documentation as a package that can be
> used offline). Hosting documentation on a github or other
> documentation-oriented service (such as readthedocs) does not have
> these issues.

Note that Gitlab's wiki is available via git:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/lorensen/VTKExamples.wiki.git

--Ben


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