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Dylan Baker 991baf56e9 modules/fs: Replace configure_file(copy:) with fs.copyfile `configure_file` is both an extremely complicated implementation, and a strange place for copying. It's a bit of a historical artifact, since the fs module didn't yet exist. It makes more sense to move this to the fs module and deprecate this `configure_file` version. This new version works at build time rather than configure time, which has the disadvantage it can't be passed to `run_command`, but with the advantage that changes to the input don't require a full reconfigure.		2 years ago
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extensions	docs: make the refman linkification slightly prettier for codeblocks	3 years ago
markdown	modules/fs: Replace configure_file(copy:) with fs.copyfile	2 years ago
refman	…
theme/extra	…
yaml	documentation: extend custom_target install	3 years ago
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README.md	don't tell documentation contributors to skip CI	3 years ago
genrefman.py	…
genrelnotes.py	docs: ensure stable order of release notes	3 years ago
jsonvalidator.py	…
meson.build	…
sitemap.txt	Finalize the release.	3 years ago

Meson Documentation

Build dependencies

Meson uses itself and hotdoc for generating documentation.

Minimum required version of hotdoc is 0.8.9.

Instructions on how to install hotdoc are here.

From the Meson repository root dir:

$ cd docs/
$ meson setup built_docs/
$ ninja -C built_docs/

Now you should be able to open the documentation locally

built_docs/Meson documentation-doc/html/index.html

Meson uses the git-upload hotdoc plugin which basically removes the html pages and replaces with the new content.

You can simply run:

$ ninja -C built_docs/ upload