On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:16:02AM +0200, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> > Are the benefits so big, though? I don't think it's such a big problem
> > to include in the doc/ directory a README that points to the
> > downloadable tarballs and CVS -- whoever wants the file will be happy to
> > download it, and who doesn't isn't bothered by the extra time to pull
> 
> Yes, having it installed on all boxes which ships with PyGTK (Red
> Hat/Fedora) vs not having it makes a big deal. I'll be much easier to
> push it into distributions than including it separately.
> 
> 600k is nothing this days. period.

Fair enough, though it's also fair to point out that there are quite a
few other distributions that carry PyGTK today.

> > John's intent is perhaps similar to mine here -- if we want to make
> > maintenence of the docs easier and more easily integratable to our code
> > contributions, then this could be the ideal solution. As long as someone
> > has time to dissect the docs, add them to the correct spots, and change
> > the generation scripts. It does sound like a lot of work, now that I
> > think about it. :-)
> 
> I'm happy with that too. But I don't think I'm going to spend a lot of
> time implement it. Anyway, not everything can be generated, but I guess
> something like function indexes (similar to gtk-doc ones).
> But arguments to functions can't really be generated, since we're adding
> our own argument parsing here and there. It's not as simple as in C
> where you can just look at the function prototype unfortunately.

I suppose we could use special comments to indicate what the API is
like, Javadoc/epydoc-style, but I'm not sure how technically feasible
that is.

Take care,
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Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331
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