CK D-Bus docs
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Wed Mar 14 07:18:20 PDT 2007
Hi,
There are a couple past threads on dbus doc introspection... there were
some kind of conclusions but nobody made spec or code patches yet, and I
don't remember the conclusions in detail.
Some may have been:
- omit docs from current Introspect() and add an IntrospectWithDocs()
or something, rationale is to avoid pushing docs around when a program
is going to interpret it
- markup within the docs is a giant can of worms to figure out what to
do with, since it can be arbitrarily complicated but we need a line to
limit the complexity in both libdbus and display engines that might
display the docs; I don't remember if there was a comprehensive proposal
here (think "what will be reasonable for a dbus-viewer thing to display
without too much implementation work")
- we have to either punt translations or the docs will be huuuuuge
(cf. size of gconf schema file translations), not sure which way to go
Anyway, I guess some quick review of old threads and consolidation into
a proposal addressing the right decisions on some of these points and
others mentioned in old threads, might help move things along. Followed
by a spec and/or code patch of course ;-)
Havoc
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