Publish all crate versions books

[GuillaumeGomez]

Currently, only the main branch book version is published online, which is very confusing if you're using this version (which I assume is the most common case...).

Instead, why not hosting all this crate's versions? We could rely on the default github renderer to list sub-folders (for example 0.12.1, 0.12.0, main, etc) and have the book hosted under each folder.

What do you think?

[Kijewski]

I would love that!

[djc]

I like the user-facing outcome but I'm wary of having n copies of the book in tree. Can we do this in some kind of build process/workflow step?

[Kijewski]

If you're OK with having one small ad in the book, then using readthedocs.org would most likely the simplest solution. It uses github hooks to automagically update the current version when it's updated.

Usage example: https://github.com/readthedocs-examples/example-mkdocs-basic/

[djc]

That sounds like moving away from mdBook? I'd rather stick with mdBook.

[Kijewski]

Kijewski/test-askama-rtd@f570530
→
https://test-askama-rtd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[GuillaumeGomez]

I'm not a big fan of the ad but not my project so let's see what @djc prefers. ;)

[djc]

By "ad" do you mean the "ReadTheDocs" floating widget in the lower right corner? Or do you mean some other add that would happen later in the pipeline after publishing to RTD? Your proposed change looks okay to me.