On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jeremy Orlow<[email protected]> wrote: > Why are you so against existing systems if you haven't even looked into > them?
I'm not -- I'm just fleshing out an idea at this point. I still need to do the work of looking at existing systems and seeing how difficult it would be to make them fit our goals. > Anyway, I know next to nothing about automated documentation, so I'll shut > up now. I'm just really surprised at how eager you are to roll your own > here. I'm not eager at all, in fact I would like nothing more than to not have to do this. But the buy/build decision is never straightforward. Taking something big that exists already and bending it to work the way you want, and maintaining that decision can often be much more work than just starting from simpler tools. In this case, generating HTML from templates is not the most complicated thing in the world and there are lots of good (smaller) tools we can use to help. - a --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
