zeal VS panamax

There is already open source dash (https://zealdocs.or) although they don't provide Mac build because of an agreement to use some of dash's lists.

But you can build it on mac (https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/wiki/Build-Instructions-for...)

There's also Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/) which is basically the same as Dash but open source and runs on non-Mac devices.

For offline tech documentation you can use Zeal. Must have tool for poor internet connection places. Present in ubuntu repos. https://zealdocs.org/

ads don't have to proprietary

here's one example of ads in FOSS https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/779

There’s stuff like https://zealdocs.org/ that allow you to take all relevant documentation with you so offline coding will work.

If you just want to be productive, you could also bring a lot of books or downloaded tutorials on a drive.

Btw, make sure your drive is encrypted and you think of a way to backup your data so you don’t lose the offline progress.

I’d suggest you look into Kiwix¹ and also Zeal².

1. https://www.kiwix.org/

2. https://zealdocs.org/

For offline documentation, I use Zeal (called Dash on macos) which looks/works almost identically to rubydoc.info but much faster since it's offline, has a standard interface for all installed language documentations, and only 1 global hotkey away while programming.

I highly recommend using local solutions to this local issue: Zeal[1] (aka Dash[2] on MacOS)

Load up the "docsets" of your languages (lightly edited HTML docs for indexing purposes) and use a global keyboard shortcut (F8 for me) to pull up Python/Postgres/Terraform docs, searching for the right function without internet query.

This isn't straight up applicable to all questions of course, but "How do I search regular expressions in Python again?" is now as easy as "re"

Note that the docsets can be converted from normal HTML ones via doc2dash[3], especially useful to load up custom docs like private providers.

[1]: https://zealdocs.org/

Here is the github discussion created by dash author explaining the deal https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/24#issue-17915169

It’s not widely advertised (probably this is the deal) but Zeal works fine on macOS, see this: https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/wiki/Build-Instructions-for...

You don’t need to build it yourself, there is a brew formula.

We had previously tried panamax but it broke constantly. Well, recently we tried again and it worked beautifully this time and we used it to create an offline mirror. It was pretty straightforward to set up, has plenty of customization options, and is quick to update. It includes the Rust toolchain itself as well as the entire ecosystem of https://crates.io/. It's amazing, and it feels like we're online almost! The entire mirror is only about 150GB. Not bad!

It looks like panamax is also a program that can be used to mirror a local crates-io registry to ones device. And using .cargo/config one can point to it. https://github.com/panamax-rs/panamax

You can use https://github.com/panamax-rs/panamax to grab the entire crates.io

I’m looking for an equivalent of panamax for rust, for golang. Do you know if a tool like this exists ? The aim is to have a maximum of packages available (ideally all) in an offline environment.

We're no complete strangers to that ;-) (my handle on github is dureuill)

Finally got Panamax's (rust mirror) "serve" command to a point where I've finally made a PR for it!

Work on Panamax (a Rust mirror for rustup and crates.io). It's nearly complete, and as part of building a command to serve a downloaded mirror, I've implemented a warp proof of concept that serves a git repo: https://github.com/panamax-rs/warp-git