RE: continuing documentation

2001-06-30 Thread Jim Franklin
]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: continuing documentation >>>>> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes: TBB> OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For now, I'm afraid of two things about that. One of these is that >> people often write docu

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-29 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes: TBB> OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For now, I'm afraid of two things about that. One of these is that >> people often write documents and comments differently, of course, >> intentionally. TBB> I agree with Okuji here. The job of the comm

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For now, I'm afraid of two things about that. One of these is that > people often write documents and comments differently, of course, > intentionally. Comments tend to be terse, because too long statements > are annoying for programmers, while docume

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-28 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Maurizio Boriani writes: MB> This kind of comment is very cool! But I think could be a good MB> thing also make them for structs or global vars and the scripts MB> could reletions them and could also design a simple kind MB> diagram. What do you think? Could be this a good idea? I like

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-26 Thread Maurizio Boriani
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:10:26PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > I don't think this is insurmountable. We could simply avoid the text > comparison for such functions, assuming that their text will be > completely different from the source. For some functions, we can > still do the right thin

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-23 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> OKUJI Yoshinori writes: >> Tagging comments is not acceptable to me, because I feel that we >> have enough information already to make a comparison of text. We >> know how to collapse simple Texinfo into text, the word order is >> easy to compare, and with some heuristics, we can gener

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-22 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: continuing documentation Date: 22 Jun 2001 19:16:02 -0600 > Tagging comments is not acceptable to me, because I feel that we have > enough information already to make a comparison of text. We know how > to collapse simp

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-22 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> OKUJI Yoshinori writes: >> When a `@deftypefun ...' declaration is found, your tool is to >> compare the rendered text and prototypes. If there are >> differences, it should ask for human intervention to merge the >> changes. OY> Is it necessary to compare descriptions as well as fun

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread Bill White
It doesn't support texinfo. This is an advantage to my way of thinking, but you have your own requirements. I don't know what you mean by "bidirectional pasting of docs into source comments. You put the docs into your source comments, and doxygen pulls them out. You can put quite complex marku

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: continuing documentation Date: 21 Jun 2001 16:24:02 -0600 > When a `@deftypefun ...' declaration is found, your tool is to compare > the rendered text and prototypes. If there are differences, it should > ask for h

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread Roland McGrath
I think Ulrich has a script he uses to keep track of functions missing from the libc manual. It might do part of what you want, and the synthesis of the two is probably a tool of use to at least libc and hurd, and probably other projects too. I am against actual automated generation of the docum

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> OKUJI Yoshinori writes: OY> If you provide me a specification which satifies your OY> requirement, I may implement such a tool. That would be a quite OY> easy task. ;) If you want it, and think it would be fun, I will not stop you. :) I went through the Hurd header files and took a bun

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: continuing documentation Date: 21 Jun 2001 15:09:27 -0600 > When I looked at it, doxygen didn't support bidirectional pasting of > docs into source comments, nor did it support Texinfo. If you provide me a specificati

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Bill White writes: BW> Have you looked at doxygen? It lets you put things in the code BW> or out of it. I'm using it for my current project at my work, in BW> a design of a symbol table, and I think it's very useful. When I looked at it, doxygen didn't support bidirectional pasting of

RE: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread Chen Shapira
> Hi, > I think this is a good idea, but I could be usefull a > tool which can parse some code comment and put out docs about > code and relations btw different source file. The output > could be html or sgml (which can be translater in different > format easly). A similar thing I saw i

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread Bill White
Have you looked at doxygen? It lets you put things in the code or out of it. I'm using it for my current project at my work, in a design of a symbol table, and I think it's very useful. On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:11:10AM -0400, Maurizio Boriani wrote: > -- On 18 Jun 2001 10:34:48 -0600 Gordon M

Re: continuing documentation

2001-06-21 Thread Maurizio Boriani
-- On 18 Jun 2001 10:34:48 -0600 Gordon Matzigkeit wrote -- > I looked at automatic tools for doing this kind of thing, but they all > failed to provide ways of working around text in the generated output. > I wouldn't want to put all the text into the header files. > > My latest direction has b