On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:29:33PM -0500, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Friday, 13 February 2004, at 21:50:53 (+0100),
> Vincent Torri wrote:
> 
> > As i find that doxygen makes awful docs and as i find the api doc of
> > gtk clean and efficient, i tried to understand how gtk-doc works.
> 
> In my opinion, the exact opposite is true.

I would have to agree about the GTK docs. I never found them to be very
easy to use beyond the most trivial things. The new ones look slightly
better, but if you don't know the name of a specific widget, it can be
a pain to track down the functionality you want.

> > The main "problem" is that gtk-doc comments are different from the
> > doxygen comments. So all the comments in your libs should be
> > re-written (or gtk-doc may be hacked, perhaps). You can use a lisp
> > mode in emacs to insert easily the comments.
> 
> I doubt that will happen.  Doxygen supports the industry-standard
> Javadoc format.  If gtk-doc does not, it should, and it's not likely
> to be used.
> 
> Michael

Agreed. And related to your other message. I like the way doxygen does
class heirarchies, we just need a better way to apply them to structs.

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