All, is changing every source code file prohibitive or not?

> On Oct 20, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Benjamin Bannier 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to ask for input on how we plan to fix (both short- and 
> longterm) the interference of the license headers and Doxygen documentation 
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3581).
> 
> Currently, and in line with the respective guidelines, license blocks are 
> wrapped in Javadoc-style comments which are also used for Doxygen 
> documentation. This leads to Doxygen interpreting license headers as 
> documentation for whatever entity follows them in the code, and heavily 
> clutters the generated documentation (see e.g. 
> http://mesos.apache.org/api/latest/c++/annotated.html). Given that 
> considerable effort is done to improve the documentation this unfortunate.
> 
> * * *
> 
> For a TLDR; of the Jira issue, there are two ways to fix this:
> 
> (a) change *all* license headers to be wrapped in e.g. `/* .. */`, also 
> update the coding guidelines, or
> (b) perform some preprocessor-like magic in the Doxygen layer.
> 
> Option (a) is very noise but obvious and stable; option (b) OTOH employs a 
> simple but stupid text replacement under the covers codified in the Doxygen 
> config; it might produce some artifacts and be surprising since the code 
> Doxygen sees will be different from what is in the source.
> 
> I personally believe option (a) is superior for purely technical reasons with 
> option (b) a possible temporary workaround.
> 
> 
> To make sure that the generated documentation shows actual documentation 
> content in overviews like 
> http://mesos.apache.org/api/latest/c++/annotated.html and elsewhere we should 
> fix this. Please comment in the Jira issue 
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3581) your input on how you 
> think this should be fixed (short- and longterm).
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Benjamin

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