One thing you could do would be to use an IDE (Eclipse, NetBeans, Komodo) that supports "mouse hovering" or autocomplete "balloon" documentation of functions, once it has digested a complete Drupal 4.7 site.
Victor On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Buzai Andras <buzai.and...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yes, I second that. > It would be nice to have a place on *.drupal.org. for the old API's. > > Buzai > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Andrew Berry <andrewbe...@sentex.net> > wrote: > > On 27/01/2011 5:48 PM, Jennifer Hodgdon wrote: > >> > >> Just to clarify, all of the API documentation for any Drupal release is > >> contained in in-code comments, so if you download Drupal 4.6 (or get it > from > >> CVS), you will have all of the API documentation along with it. > > > > It looks like the 4.7 API is also gone from api.drupal.org. > > > > I'm not familiar with the exact rationale behind removing the old > > documentation, but I previously found it handy to be able to go back to > > unsupported releases to learn about the history and the changes in > current > > functions. While I can understand removing old releases to hammer in that > > they aren't supported, it would still be useful to have old release API > > documentation existing somewhere on *.drupal.org for historical and > > educational purposes. > > > > Perhaps we could have a static HTML version of the old APIs posted > > somewhere? > > > > --Andrew > > >
