[Xcb] documentation.

Jeremy A. Kolb jkolb at brandeis.edu
Tue Nov 28 11:50:08 PST 2006


Vincent,

Is the plan to use the doc tag for extension documentation as well?

Jeremy

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Vincent Torri wrote:

> 
> Committed. I've looked at the changes. It only adds the documentation in 
> the header files.
> 
> Of course, verify that assertion :)
> 
> Vincent
> 
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:14:47AM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
> >> Hey
> >
> > Hi Vincent!
> >
> >> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> >>> Rather than placing an extra newline in every use of the <doc> tag, you
> >>> might arrange to add the newline automatically. ...
> >>
> >> Indeed. I've fixed that. I just added a template for the doc tag.
> >
> > Sure, that'll do it. :-)
> >
> >>> Yeah, I assume there's no point in having Doxygen comments in the
> >>> generated .c source files? It's pretty easy to test whether we're
> >>> generating a .c or a .h file, and omit the comments for one of them.
> >>
> >> I've also fixed that (the comments are in the header files).
> >
> > Cool. That'll make it a bit easier to deal with the output.
> >
> >> Now, I can add comments for other functions of the protocol stup api, or I
> >> can make a patch for just the _next function and put it in bugzilla. Or do
> >> you think I should do something else ?
> >
> > I think that before doing anything else, you should commit what you have
> > so far. :-) Then you can start working on other functions. If you can
> > see ways to simplify the XSLT, such as by using the <doc> tag for the
> > comments that were already there, you might do some clean-up before
> > continuing. But that's up to you.
> >
> > Just be sure that you're only changing comments. As long as the actual
> > code doesn't change, you can experiment as much as you want. Also, I'll
> > really appreciate if you make only small commits to the XSLT, so I can
> > understand what you did at each step. For example, as you document a new
> > function, commit just that one function's documentation.
> >
> > Of course, if you find a need to change the code, that might be OK too,
> > but we should talk about it on the list first. :-)
> >
> > --Jamey
> >
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