[arionmiles]

Why does documentation require hosting it on a server? My assumption is that it's a static site, and as such, even GitHub Pages would be sufficient.

I know... all content has to be served via a "server" but in case of OVH it's a full-blown hosting solution isn't it?

Besides, I'm sure GitHub wouldn't mind supporting Pandas documentation. They do it for a million other projects for free (even though they're not popular among the HN crowd these days)

[chaps]

Free stuff has a way of short circuiting things.

[eduction]

Probably because your assumption is wrong - they host a live shell and documentation search.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260220092649/https://pandas.py...

https://web.archive.org/web/20260225185816/https://pandas.py...

(I don't know anything about pandas, incidentaly, I just did some basic research before posting.)

[GrayShade]

That's not a shell, it's a Python interpreter compiled to WASM and running in the browser.

[eduction]

Whatever you call it, it’s plainly calling repeatedly to the server once loaded. You couldn’t just throw it on GitHub or cloudflare as is.

[ErikBjare]

Both of those are statically served

[eduction]

Wrong. Ajax requests to server triggered when using either. Nice try.

[sco1]

It does appear to potentially be possible: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/64585

[ekjhgkejhgk]

Where would you host a static site, if it's not a server? In a pineapple?