Expand a little.
- mention the type name of the return code
- avoid stating which exact return codes that might be returned, as that
varies over time, builds and conditions
- avoid stating some always return OK
- refer to the manpage documenting all the return codes
Closes#15900
Went through CURLOPTTYPE_STRINGPOINT and CURLOPTTYPE_SLISTPOINT options
and clarified:
- what happens when setting the option *again*
- setting to NULL disables/restores to default
- libcurl does not copy the slist for options using a such
Closes#14846
- make DEFAULT sections less repetitive
- make historic mentions use HISTORY
- generate the protocols section on `# %PROTOCOLS%` instead of guessing
where to put it
- generate the availability section on `# %AVAILABILITY%` instead of
guessing where to put it
- make the protocols section more verbose
Closes#14227
- generate AVAILABILITY manpage sections automatically - for consistent
wording
- allows us to double-check against other documumentation (symbols-in-versions
etc)
- enables proper automation/scripting based on this data
- lots of them were wrong or missing in the manpages
- several of them repeated (sometimes mismatching) backend support info
Add test 1488 to verify "added-in" version numbers against
symbols-in-versions.
Closes#14217
Introduce new notation for CURLOPT_INTERFACE / --interface:
ifhost!<interface>!<host>
Binding to an interface doesn't set the address, and an interface can
have multiple addresses.
When binding to an address (without interface), the kernel is free to
choose the route, and it can route through any device that can access
the target address, not necessarily the one with the chosen address.
Moreover, it is possible for different interfaces to have the same IP
address, on which case we need to provide a way to be more specific.
Factor out the parsing part of interface option, and add unit tests:
1663.
Closes#13719
Remove the PROTOCOLS section from the source files completely and
instead generate them based on the header data in the curldown files.
It also generates TLS backend information for options marked for TLS as
protocol.
Closes#13175
The mandatory header now has a mandatory list of protocols for which the
manpage is relevant.
Most man pages already has a "PROTOCOLS" section, but this introduces a
stricter way to specify the relevant protocols.
cd2nroff verifies that at least one protocol is mentioned (which can be
`*`).
This information is not used just yet, but A) the PROTOCOLS section can
now instead get generated and get a unified wording across all manpages
and B) this allows us to more reliably filter/search for protocol
specific manpages/options.
Closes#13166
The curldown conversion accidentally replaced daniel@haxx.se with
just daniel.se. This reverts back to the proper email address in
the curldown docs as well as in a few other stray places where it
was incorrect (while unrelated to curldown).
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Closes: #12997
This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want to avoid. In the
name of consistency and better documentation.
Closes#12764
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:
- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
their man page section is specified)
tools:
- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown
This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.
CI:
Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...
Closes#12730
