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Perhaps the readme should emphasise it, but the gitbook public repository was abandoned by the company who open sourced it.
by karlicoss 7y ago
Perhaps the readme should emphasise it, but the gitbook public repository was abandoned by the company who open sourced it.
- steveklabnik 7y agoI actually did not know this until this comment. mdbook was originally created because we liked the UX of gitbook, but didn't want to introduce a Node dependency into building Rust.
- bachmeier 7y agoThat would certainly be useful information to provide in the readme. I'd never heard of gitbook or mdbook before this.
- red_admiral 7y agoAnd, annoyingly, a lot of google searches for "gitbook xyz" just turn up the new cloud-hosted gitbook subscription service. You have to go through archive.org or similar to read the documentation for the original.
- karmakaze 7y agoI just started using GitBook for a blog because it is opensource and offers a free hosted site. As I understand it only the CLI portion is unmaintained[0] which aligns with how it's being used by the developers (and me). [Btw, the older version is easily found as GitBook legacy.] [0] https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook#%EF%B8%8F-deprecation-warning https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook#%EF%B8%8F-deprecation-w...