On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 14:42:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 10:02:13 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
Awesome work. IDEs could use this, i don't know how yet but
i'll maybe try something one day.
Yeah, webfreak was talking to me about that on irc and I've had
people ask me about the main dpldocs site being an api (to
which I reply "it is already a REST api returning a XML
representation.... called a static html page". which i think is
good - this html is a bit verbose bu that's because i wrote it
with a lot of semantic information included in the tags, it can
be machine parsed and analyzed. need a lib for it? use my dom.d
:P )
But anyway, once I see someone with a prototype and we can
identify specific needs through use, then I'm open to adding
more stuff to help that effort.
I think that nothing more is needed.
The idea is to use DCD to get the d source where a symbol is
declared, from this file it's possible to guess the html page for
this symbol. Actually i already do this for phobos (using the
official html) and it works fine.
At first glance i can say that this will work perfectly for DUB
packages. Once DCD gives a file, the IDE just have to look the
parent folders to get the SemVer tag.
If the file is in a git repository things might be more
complicated.
The only difference with what is done right now (in Coedit) is
the url structure.
For now it's "<module>.html#<symbol>" or
"<package>_<module>.html#<symbol>".
While with ardrox it's <module>.<symbol>.html.
