On Sun, 13 May 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > > > I also complained and complained about websnap and asp and php, and of > > > > course I also wrote some code > > > > that solved my problem there which is all FPC based, the poor old wiki, > > > > forum, and other utilities > > > > on my site that need updating. Others choose the easy solution and use > > > > ASP and PHP.. boring. I > > > > complained about FPDOC and wrote some extensions for my own lufdoc, and > > > > I complained about numerous > > > > other things and went ahead and wrote code. > > > > > > fpdoc is IMHO a good thing, that unfortunately is not fully mature. It > > > really needs a circle of dedicated users that report and submit patches. > > > > Aaaargggh - a knife through my heart :-) > > > > fpdoc not mature ? > > What about the 1700 pages of rtl/fcl documentation it creates ? > > I'd rather hope that this is somewhat mature ? I'm not even talking about > > the LCL, which will probably be a lot more than 1700 pages when printed... > > Nobody disputes the size of docs. That was also not what I wanted to hint at, just that if fpdoc can generate such an amount of pages from relatively difficult sources, it seems to me that this is not alpha-quality anymore... > I was more talking about not generating a > Windows helpformat (on my todo for years), the array [] of ansistring at RTF is on the todo list and nearly done. .hlp or .chm is then a matter of adding some footnotes on the right places, and running the windows help compiler. > > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/unix/fpexecle.html > > not to speak of > > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/format.html I'll have a look at them. Should not be hard to fix. > > > It does what it was designed to do. It's not perfect, and there are still > > some improvements that can be made, but it has steadily improved since > > day 1. And will continue to improve in the future. > > > But alas, as so often, we loose the continuous struggle with time. > > Which was the exactly what I meant to express.. Needs more continuous > struggle from people with a direct interest to not let the improvement rate > decrease. Agreed 100% ! Not all at once, please. There is plenty of room for enthousiasts ;-) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
