Remove skydoc (#5208)

Nobody uses it, it’s deprecated anyway.

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WORKSPACE

@@ -726,19 +726,6 @@ yarn_install(
     },
 )
 
-# Bazel Skydoc - Build rule documentation generator
-load("@io_bazel_rules_sass//:package.bzl", "rules_sass_dependencies")
-
-rules_sass_dependencies()
-
-load("@io_bazel_rules_sass//:defs.bzl", "sass_repositories")
-
-sass_repositories()
-
-load("@io_bazel_skydoc//skylark:skylark.bzl", "skydoc_repositories")
-
-skydoc_repositories()
-
 # We usually use the _deploy_jar target to produce self-contained jars, but here we're using jar_jar because the size
 # of codegen tool is substantially reduced (as shown below) and that the presence of JVM internal com.sun classes could
 # theoretically stop the codegen running against JVMs other the OpenJDK 8 (the current JVM used for building).

bazel_tools/docs/BUILD.bazel

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2020 The DAML Authors. All rights reserved.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-load("@io_bazel_skydoc//skylark:skylark.bzl", "skylark_doc")
-
-skylark_doc(
-    name = "docs",
-    srcs = [
-        "//bazel_tools:haskell.bzl",
-        "//bazel_tools:scala.bzl",
-        # "//bazel_tools/scalafmt:scalafmt.bzl",
-        "//bazel_tools/packaging:packaging.bzl",
-        "//bazel_tools/java_testing:java_test_suite.bzl",
-        "//rules_daml:daml.bzl",
-    ],
-    format = "html",
-)

deps.bzl

@@ -143,14 +143,6 @@ def daml_deps():
             patch_args = ["-p1"],
         )
 
-    if "io_bazel_skydoc" not in native.existing_rules():
-        http_archive(
-            name = "io_bazel_skydoc",
-            sha256 = "c2d66a0cc7e25d857e480409a8004fdf09072a1bd564d6824441ab2f96448eea",
-            strip_prefix = "skydoc-0.3.0",
-            urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/skydoc/archive/0.3.0.tar.gz"],
-        )
-
     if "bazel_gazelle" not in native.existing_rules():
         http_archive(
             name = "bazel_gazelle",

dev-env/bin/bazel-api-docs

@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -Eeuo pipefail
-
-USAGEMSG="
-USAGE: $0 [FLAGS]
-
-Build the Bazel API documentation and serve it via HTTP on the current host.
-
-FLAGS:
-  -p PORT    Serve the API documentation on this port.
-"
-
-usage() {
-    echo "$USAGEMSG"
-    exit ${1-0}
-}
-
-PORT=8000
-
-while getopts "hp:" flag; do
-  case "$flag" in
-    h)
-      usage 0
-      ;;
-    p)
-      PORT="$OPTARG"
-      ;;
-    *)
-      usage 1
-      ;;
-    esac
-done
-
-# Temporary working directory.
-SCRATCH=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir da-bazel-api-docs.XXXX)
-
-cleanup() {
-    echo Deleting $SCRATCH ...
-    rm -rf "$SCRATCH"
-}
-
-trap cleanup EXIT
-
-bazel build //bazel_tools/docs
-mkdir -p "$SCRATCH"
-unzip -d "$SCRATCH" bazel-bin/bazel_tools/docs/docs-skydoc.zip
-
-cd "$SCRATCH"
-echo "Starting server. This will take a moment. Press CTRL-C to quit" >&2
-python -m SimpleHTTPServer "$PORT"