[vtk-developers] Static pages for VTKExamples

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Mon May 15 16:15:00 EDT 2017


Ben,

Also, the second approach with github pages is available via git:
https://github.com/lorensen/VTKExamples


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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