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Mattias Wadman c1d885b024 website: Make latest release (1.7) be default manual (#3130)
Fixes issue with confusion about features that has not been
released yet.

Move deveopment manual.yml to dev/manual.yml
Symlink manual.yml to v1.7/manual.yml
Refactor to share history header with links to other manual versions.
Change man.test and man page generation to use dev/manual.yml

Related to #3078 #3127
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Documentation

The jq website, manpages and some of the tests are generated from this directory. The manual is a YAML file in content/manual.

To build the documentation (including building the jq manpage), you'll need python3 and pipenv. You can install pipenv like so:

pip install pipenv

Though, you may need to say pip3 instead, depending on your system. Once you have pipenv installed, you can install the dependencies by running pipenv sync from the docs/ directory.

Also, you may need to run virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv/ and then source venv/bin/activate, and only then pipenv sync.

Once this is done, rerun ./configure in the jq root directory and then the Makefile will be able to generate the jq manpage. You can just run make jq.1 to build the manpage manually, and make tests/man.test to update the manual tests.

To build the website, run pipenv run python3 build_website.py --root /output in the docs/ directory. To serve them locally, you can run python3 -m http.server.