Documentation for 0.8.5 is missing/broken

[marmeladema]

Summary

https://docs.rs/crate/rand/latest reports rand-0.8.5 doesn't have any documentation.

See

This is making working with the rand crate relatively difficult as various links, even from the rand book, points to latest version.

A workaround is to look at the previous version documentation at https://docs.rs/rand/0.8.4/rand/index.html

[benjamin-lieser]

It seems packed_simd broke with the current compiler and so did the docs.
I am not sure if it can be fixed after the fact though

[dhardy]

But curious that it got rebuilt; you can see that the previous build was Feb 14, 2022.

[dhardy]

Fixed

[ranile]

@dhardy I don't see the fix? It's still broken on docs.rs. https://docs.rs/rand redirects to https://docs.rs/crate/rand/latest. The last build (one day ago) failed: https://docs.rs/crate/rand/0.8.5/builds/1555579

[benjamin-lieser]

It is here https://docs.rs/rand/0.8.5/rand/index.html

There was no fix (which would require a new version, so potential problems for people for no use at all)

The old documentation was somehow restored. I guess docs.rs will eventually fix these things. See rust-lang/docs.rs#2675

[Imberflur]

For some reason all the source links for the 0.8.5 docs on docs.rs point to https://rust-random.github.io. Which was really confusing me since the source there is for a different version 😅. Is this related?

[dhardy]

For some reason all the source links for the 0.8.5 docs on docs.rs point to https://rust-random.github.io. Which was really confusing me since the source there is for a different version 😅. Is this related?

Which links in particular? The "source" link on https://docs.rs/rand/latest/rand/ shows code packaged from that release.

https://rust-random.github.io doesn't link to anything. https://rust-random.github.io/rand/rand/ is built from the master branch (equivalent to the 0.9.0-beta.1 release for now).

[Imberflur]

Which links in particular? The "source" link on https://docs.rs/rand/latest/rand/ shows code packaged from that release.

at least the source links on this trait https://docs.rs/rand/latest/rand/trait.SeedableRng.html (permanent link https://docs.rs/rand/0.8.5/rand/trait.SeedableRng.html)

I didn't realize it was just some of the source links. It looks like at least a few other traits are affected.

[dhardy]

Aha. It sounds like the docs restoration got messed up.

Thanks for reporting; I don't know if we'll fix soon however.

[dhardy]

v0.9 is published now. If anyone wants to update 0.8.x docs I'm not against it, but didn't bother since it's not trivial (nightly changes).