Forge documentation should be in a form accessible across platforms

[hoodwink_dude]

I cannot access forge documentation on my android phone and I don't get on my laptop whenever I want so it would be extremely useful if the documentations were in pdf form or something else that was accessible on various platforms other than just desktop

[LexManos]

The web site should be avalible on all platforms. http://mcforge.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Either way I do not control the format of the side its all made by readthedocs. So it should be fine.

[hoodwink_dude]

why isnt there a javadoc on the forge files page for the newest version of forge 1.7.10? im using 1.7.10 for modding but im fairly new so the documentation will be handy but there isnt the documentation for the latest forge 1.7.10. Why???

[LexManos]

Because we are no longer tied to one version of the crowdsourced mcp mappings and providing on snapshot of the javadocs would be a extreme waste.

Not to mention the fact that the javadocs were 90% of our data storage usage on our files servers for what is extremely redundant data.

 

You can generate them yourself after you setup a workspace and use them for whatever you want and they would be more accurate to your setup then the static ones forge used to ship.

We're also looking for someone to come and build a dynamic website to generate the old style javadocs using the mcp mappings but nobody has stepped forth so it appears nobody cares.

 

TLDR: Its not worth it on our end, and you have the tools to make more accurate documentation yourself.

 

[hoodwink_dude]

How do I generate them

 

[LexManos]

After you run setupdecompworkspace you end up with a source jar file for minecraft/forge.

You just feed that into the normal javadocs generator program and you're done.