On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 07, 2013, at 08:09 AM, Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote:
...
> Also there is my
> fairly-well-scrubbed list of current binary programs and their
> matching source files (that I have found so far) that have no man
> page.
...
> How does your list compare with the list in the top-level TODO file?
> (It's at the top of the DOCUMENTATION section.)

Much longer--and many on the old list no longer exist--I'll replace it.

> Does initial imply that the long-term intent is to keep regenerating the
> manual page from the sources or is this a one-shot bulk-creation event?

Yes, I thought that was part of the auto-doc goal.

> The README looks good, but I'd be concerned about the long-term implications
> of having an implicit format to comments and introducing more globals (the
> progression is to eliminate most).

Well, the globals (only two) should be local to the file, but they
could be moved inside main with a little clean up.  Also, if we are
happy with a man page it could always be removed from the auto-list.

> a usage() function, which I believe some needed to avoid c90 string limits
> aside from encapsulating usage to a single location.

That can be handled I think if need be.

> Our source comments are using Doxygen, so perhaps a standard form or even
> some customized commands could help here?  But if this is a one-shot deal,
> it won't matter.

I looked at Doxygen, but it really seems to be more oriented to
functions, variables, etc. than main function inputs, and I think it
would take a lot more effort to make that work--and my method is very
similar.  (I think the customized commands are really aliases for
existing commands.)

Best,

-Tom

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