Jon,

This is a good suggestion. Let's get some move feedback from the group.

If there are no negative votes, I would like to add these when we have
content that leverages them so that we can validate the integration.

Pat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: iotivity-dev-bounces at lists.iotivity.org [mailto:iotivity-dev-
> bounces at lists.iotivity.org] On Behalf Of Jon A. Cruz
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 5:22 PM
> To: iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org
> Subject: [dev] Documentation tools
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We currently list Doxygen as the main tool required for our code
> documentation. In order to extend our capabilities and also to help add to
> the design/architecture aspects of the documentation it would be good to
> add graphviz and mscgen to the required tools.
> 
> Graphviz/dot allows us to embed diagrams in Doxygen including UML
> sketches and other things that make life easier for developers. It uses a
very
> simple format that is easy to pickup and to modify. Mscgen generates
> message sequence charts and is also directly supported by Doxygen as of v
> 1.5.2.
> 
> One of the main benefits to using these to generate diagrams and charts is
> that they are automatically kept in sync with the code and get updated
each
> time docs are built. Another, and the one that makes it better than using
> external diagramming tools, is that Doxygen will automatically hot-link
the
> items in the charts and diagrams to the pertinent sections of generated
> documentation.
> 
> Are there any reasons we shouldn't pick up the use of these two? Of course
> they will only be required for actual documentation builds and not for the
> core product.
> 
> --
> Jon A. Cruz - Senior Open Source Developer Samsung Open Source Group
> jonc at osg.samsung.com
> _______________________________________________
> iotivity-dev mailing list
> iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org
> https://lists.iotivity.org/mailman/listinfo/iotivity-dev
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 7198 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: 
<http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20150324/daba4e64/attachment.p7s>

Reply via email to