[vlc-devel] Updated documentation correct location

[Mohit Marathe]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 at 11:15 PM, Ankit <ankitjmeel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> As you might be aware, the wiki is outdated.
> The doc page for building VLC locally severely so.[1][2][3][4][5]
>
> I wish to improve the new developer experience WRT process,
> building VLC, tooling, documentation.
>
> Apparently git repo seems preferable [6] to the wiki for such
> documents.
>
> 1 Is it fine if I go ahead and make a PR with a BUILD-macos.md ?
> 2 And someone with wiki account can update/ rm that page to link to
>    the MD file.


AFAIK the wiki is pretty much dead, no one edit it.
The (relatively) new docs can be found at
https://code.videolan.org/docs


> 3 One file for contributing and raising PRs as well ? [7]
>
> AFAICS, it's the outdated content that shows up in the search engines
> which causes such confusion.
>
> Thanks
> ankitm
>
> [1]:
> https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2024-January/143630.html
>
> [2]: https://wiki.videolan.org/MacOSCompile/
>
> [3]: https://wiki.videolan.org/Talk:MacOSCompile#mw-parser-output
>
> [4]:
> https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2024-February/143637.html
>
> [4]:
> https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2023-December/143610.html
>
> [6]:
> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/master/doc/BUILD-win32.md
>
> [7]:
> https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2024-February/143635.html
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