Unclear which platforms are used to build docs

[shepmaster]

I got an issue on SNAFU that its docs are not built for *-apple-* unlike some other crates. This made the reporter think that the crate wasn't supported on certain platforms.

I don't actually know which platforms are used to build the docs, so it's difficult to know if my crate is failing to build for some reason on certain platforms. I also couldn't find how to view the build logs when there's not a complete total build failure. Through hunting through other issues, I see that there's a /builds route, which doesn't appear to be linked from anywhere. The build log only shows the output from a single platform, and doesn't specify which it is.

Related:

• stop building crates on all targets #343
• Building crates that work only on some platforms #141

[jyn514]

Hello and sorry for the long wait. The available platforms are unfortunately not currently documented, I've listed them below:

• x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
• x86_64-apple-darwin
• x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
• i686-unknown-linux-gnu
• i686-apple-darwin (removed in Drop support for building 32-bit Apple docs #541)
• i686-pc-windows-msvc

The output you're seeing is for the default target, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. I am actually not sure how to access build logs from other targets, I'd have to look into that.

I'll leave this open until we properly document all this on the /about page.

[jyn514]

This was documented in #550. You can see the docs here: https://docs.rs/about#metadata