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* channel() - #[unstable]. This will likely remain forever
* sync_channel(n: int) - #[unstable with comment]. Concerns have ben raised
about the usage of the term "synchronous channel" because that generally only
applies to the case where n == 0. If n > 0 then these channels are often
referred to as buffered channels.
* Sender::send(), SyncSender::send(), Receiver::recv() - #[experimental]. These
functions directly violate the general guideline of not providing a failing
and non-failing variant. These functions were explicitly selected for being
excused from this guideline, but recent discussions have cast doubt on that
decision. These functions are #[experimental] for now until a decision is made
as they are candidates for removal.
* Sender::send_opt(), SyncSender::send_opt(), Receiver::recv_opt() - #[unstable
with a comment]. If the above no-`_opt` functions are removed, these functions
will be renamed to the non-`_opt` variants.
* SyncSender::try_send(), Receiver::try_recv() - #[unstable with a comment].
These return types of these functions to not follow general conventions. They
are consistent with the rest of the api, but not with the rest of the
libraries. Until their return types are nailed down, these functions are
#[unstable].
* Receiver::iter() - #[unstable]. This will likely remain forever.
* std::com::select - #[experimental]. The functionality is likely to remain in
some form forever, but it is highly unlikely to remain in its current form. It
is unknown how much breakage this will cause if and when the api is
redesigned, so the entire module and its components are all experimental.
* DuplexStream - #[deprecated]. This type is not composable with other channels
in terms of selection or other expected locations. It can also not be used
with ChanWriter and ChanReader, for example. Due to it being only lightly
used, and easily replaced with two channels, this type is being deprecated and
slated for removal.
* Clone for {,Sync}Sender - #[unstable]. This will likely remain forever.
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-dir 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 rust.html rust.md
(rust.md being the Rust Reference Manual.)
The syntax for pandoc flavored markdown can be found at: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown
A nice quick reference (for non-pandoc markdown) is at: http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/quickref.html
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="0.11.0-pre" \
-M UTF-8 -L UTF-8 \
src/doc/po4a.conf
(the version number must be changed if it is not 0.11.0-pre 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.