release-tools builds the entire boost release bundle. A task during that process is to compile the documentation. These new build_docs scripts are similar to that. The goal is to compile the documentation for a target library. Thus, more limited and specific. They install prerequisite apt and pip packages, and run b2. Test one target rather than the entire bundle. If someone asks "how do I build the docs for library X", the answer can be "run linuxdocs.sh".
release-tools builds the entire boost release bundle. A task during that process is to compile the documentation. These new build_docs scripts are similar to that. The goal is to compile the documentation for a target library. Thus, more limited and specific. They install prerequisite apt and pip packages, and run b2. Test one target rather than the entire bundle. If someone asks "how do I build the docs for library X", the answer can be "run linuxdocs.sh".