On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:43:17 -0400 Mike Blumenkrantz <m...@zentific.com> said:

> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:28:40 -0200
> Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demar...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> > <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> > > On Friday, October 22, 2010, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> ok as a general thing. this isn't any api break.
> > >>>
> > >>> doxyegen doc comments. should they go in .c files or in .h files? good
> > >>> question. eet has it all in Eet.h. the rest of efl has it in .c files. a
> > >>> good case has been made for it being in .h files instead of .c - that
> > >>> developers actually do read the .h files and then dont see the docs.
> > >>> they need to go get the src separately OR find the separately generated
> > >>> docs. having it all there in 1 place already shipped and installed is
> > >>> useful as docs are ready to read without needing to find the pretty
> > >>> generated html ones (or man pages). another bonus - it's instantly
> > >>> obvious what functions are and are not documented.
> > >>>
> > >>> what do people think? move docs to .h file(s)? (its really mostly a
> > >>> mechanical thing).
> > >>
> > >> It make a lot of sense to have the doc in the public header indeed. So
> > >> I would vote for that too.
> > >
> > > -1 as it gets out of sync much easier, makes .h cluttered to be read
> > > by humans (elementary and evas are already bad)
> > >
> > 
> > -1 too. Header becomes much more difficult to read. Maybe user should
> > be directed to the docs that are automatically generated...
> Agree.  That's the whole point of doxygen.

well yes and no - doxygen makes the docs more "manager friendly" i.e. provides
nice formatted printable or html docs with links and prettiness. as such the
core of the docs are still the same text be it in the .h or in the html.

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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