A post by jquelin reminded me of something that would be nice to see, for potential contributors to Mageia code (like myself).

It would be useful to have brief documentation for Mageia perl routines, which would describe the inputs required (function, range of values, etc) and the purpose of each routine. This would be good to have in a separate document, so (potential) hackers could have an overview of the various routines and their functions. I know that with time one can learn this, but it would provide a quickstart for those who would like to contribute to the drak* tools for example. A simple text file would suffice, since that would give the flexibility to put it wherever wanted on the screen while examining other perl code which uses these routines.

I'm talking about a concise programmer's guide, and not something suitable for end-users. And not something describing the perl language itself, for which there are plenty of references.

This could be done with python as well. I mention perl since that is what most of the drak* tools are written in.

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André

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