Doc hard, and with a vengeance

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Make sure that [Travis](http://www.travis-ci.org) greenlights the pull request w
  - Try to [squash](http://gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/10/squashing-commits-with-rebase.html) together small commits that make repeated changes to the same section of code so your pull request is easier to review, and Julia's history won't have any broken intermediate commits. A reasonable number of separate well-factored commits is fine, especially for larger changes.
  - If any conflicts arise due to changes in Julia's `master`, prefer updating your pull request branch with `git rebase` versus `git merge` or `git pull`, since the latter will introduce merge commits that clutter the git history with noise that makes your changes more difficult to review.
  - If you see any unrelated changes to submodules like `deps/libuv`, `deps/openlibm`, etc., try running `git submodule update` first.
- - Avoid committing changes to auto-generated files such as `doc/helpdb.jl`, which is a frequent source of conflicts and can be re-generated later.
+ - Avoid committing changes to auto-generated files such as `doc/stdlib/*.rst`, which is a frequent source of conflicts and can be re-generated later.
  - Descriptive commit messages are good.
  - Using `git add -p` or `git add -i` can be useful to avoid accidentally committing unrelated changes.
  - GitHub does not send notifications when you push a new commit to a pull request, so please add a comment to the pull request thread to let reviewers know when you've made changes.

Makefile

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ endif
 julia-deps: | $(DIRS) $(build_datarootdir)/julia/base $(build_datarootdir)/julia/test $(build_docdir) $(build_sysconfdir)/julia/juliarc.jl $(build_man1dir)/julia.1
 	@$(MAKE) $(QUIET_MAKE) -C deps
 
-julia-base: julia-deps $(build_docdir)/helpdb.jl
+julia-base: julia-deps
 	@$(MAKE) $(QUIET_MAKE) -C base
 
 julia-libccalltest:
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ endif
 
 release-candidate: release testall
 	@$(JULIA_EXECUTABLE) contrib/add_license_to_files.jl #add license headers
+	@$(JULIA_EXECUTABLE) doc/genstdlib.jl
 	@#Check documentation
 	@$(JULIA_EXECUTABLE) doc/NEWS-update.jl #Add missing cross-references to NEWS.md
 	@$(MAKE) -C doc unicode #Rebuild Unicode table if necessary
@@ -96,7 +97,6 @@ release-candidate: release testall
 	@$(MAKE) -C doc latex SPHINXOPTS="-n" #Rebuild Julia PDF docs pedantically
 	@$(MAKE) -C doc doctest #Run Julia doctests
 	@$(MAKE) -C doc linkcheck #Check all links
-	@$(MAKE) -C doc helpdb.jl #Rebuild Julia online documentation for help(), apropos(), etc...
 
 	@# Check to see if the above make invocations changed anything important
 	@if [ -n "$$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then \
@@ -124,9 +124,6 @@ release-candidate: release testall
 	@echo 10. Change master to release-0.X in base/version.jl and base/version_git.sh as in 4cb1e20
 	@echo
 
-$(build_docdir)/helpdb.jl: doc/helpdb.jl | $(build_docdir)
-	@cp $< $@
-
 $(build_man1dir)/julia.1: doc/man/julia.1 | $(build_man1dir)
 	@mkdir -p $(build_man1dir)
 	@cp $< $@
@@ -183,7 +180,7 @@ $(build_private_libdir)/inference.ji: $(build_private_libdir)/inference0.ji
 
 COMMA:=,
 define sysimg_builder
-$$(build_private_libdir)/sys$1.o: $$(build_private_libdir)/inference.ji VERSION $$(BASE_SRCS) $$(build_docdir)/helpdb.jl
+$$(build_private_libdir)/sys$1.o: $$(build_private_libdir)/inference.ji VERSION $$(BASE_SRCS)
 	@$$(call PRINT_JULIA, cd base && \
 	$$(call spawn,$2) -C $$(JULIA_CPU_TARGET) --output-o $$(call cygpath_w,$$@) $$(JULIA_SYSIMG_BUILD_FLAGS) -f \
 		-J $$(call cygpath_w,$$<) sysimg.jl \

base/docs/Docs.jl

@@ -527,10 +527,7 @@ macro repl(ex)
             if $(isfield(ex) ? :(isa($(esc(ex.args[1])), DataType)) : false)
                 $(isfield(ex) ? :(fielddoc($(esc(ex.args[1])), $(ex.args[2]))) : nothing)
             else
-                # Backwards-compatible with the previous help system, for now
-                let doc = @doc $(esc(ex))
-                    doc ≠ nothing ? doc : Base.Help.@help_ $(esc(ex))
-                end
+                @doc $(esc(ex))
             end
         end
     end

base/docs/basedocs.jl

@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ const intro = doc"""
   For help on a specific function or macro, type `?` followed
   by its name, e.g. `?fft`, `?@time` or `?html`, and press
   enter.
-
-  You can also use `apropos("...")` to search the documentation.
   """
 
 keywords[:help] = keywords[:?] = keywords[:julia] = keywords[:wtf] = intro