Aaron Turon
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This commit is part of a series that introduces a `std::thread` API to replace `std::task`. In the new API, `spawn` returns a `JoinGuard`, which by default will join the spawned thread when dropped. It can also be used to join explicitly at any time, returning the thread's result. Alternatively, the spawned thread can be explicitly detached (so no join takes place). As part of this change, Rust processes now terminate when the main thread exits, even if other detached threads are still running, moving Rust closer to standard threading models. This new behavior may break code that was relying on the previously implicit join-all. In addition to the above, the new thread API also offers some built-in support for building blocking abstractions in user space; see the module doc for details. Closes #18000 [breaking-change]
Rust documentations
Dependencies
Pandoc, a universal document converter, is required to generate docs as HTML from Rust's source code.
po4a is required for generating translated docs from the master (English) docs.
GNU gettext is required for managing the translation data.
Building
To generate all the docs, just run make docs from the root of the repository.
This will convert the distributed Markdown docs to HTML and generate HTML doc
for the 'std' and 'extra' libraries.
To generate HTML documentation from one source file/crate, do something like:
rustdoc --output html-doc/ --output-format html ../src/libstd/path.rs
(This, of course, requires a working build of the rustdoc tool.)
Additional notes
To generate an HTML version of a doc from Markdown manually, you can do something like:
pandoc --from=markdown --to=html5 --number-sections -o reference.html reference.md
(reference.md being the Rust Reference Manual.)
The syntax for pandoc flavored markdown can be found at:
A nice quick reference (for non-pandoc markdown) is at:
Notes for translators
Notice: The procedure described below is a work in progress. We are working on translation system but the procedure contains some manual operations for now.
To start the translation for a new language, see po4a.conf at first.
To generate .pot and .po files, do something like:
po4a --copyright-holder="The Rust Project Developers" \
--package-name="Rust" \
--package-version="0.13.0" \
-M UTF-8 -L UTF-8 \
src/doc/po4a.conf
(the version number must be changed if it is not 0.13.0 now.)
Now you can translate documents with .po files, commonly used with gettext. If
you are not familiar with gettext-based translation, please read the online
manual linked from http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ . We use UTF-8 as the
file encoding of .po files.
When you want to make a commit, do the command below before staging your change:
for f in src/doc/po/**/*.po; do
msgattrib --translated $f -o $f.strip
if [ -e $f.strip ]; then
mv $f.strip $f
else
rm $f
fi
done
This removes untranslated entries from .po files to save disk space.