On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Sebastian Haase wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I never knew about that.  It appears to be quite old (SymPy 0.6.4 or 0.6.3 
>>>> or something).  Basically, anything in the GoogleCode svn is old and 
>>>> shouldn't be used, except for history purposes.
>>>>
>>>> Ondrej, did you ever plan on continuing to use pydoctor?
>>>
>>> No, we should remove it. If you have a minute, please do so. :)
>
> I would, except I have no idea how…
>
> (i.e., I don't know how to use SVN)
>
>>>
>>> Ondrej
>>>
>> I was just saying, that what I found there was much better than
>> nothing. And, if it gets generated automatically from all source code
>> doc strings, it might be a feasible addition to the sphinx
>> documentation (until that's complete)...
>>
>> My 2 euro cents.
>> - Sebastian
>
> You can also get all docstrings by browsing the source at 
> http://github.com/sympy/sympy (or 
> http://github.com/sympy/sympy/tree/sympy-0.6.7 for the latest release).  It 
> won't be the easiest way to do it, but it will show you everything, and in 
> the format that the person who wrote it originally meant/saw (i.e., in 
> equal-width font with no fancy rst conversions).  Also, seeing the source 
> next to the docstring can be very enlightening in many cases :)
>
> But really, we should just complete the Sphinx docstrings.  It isn't that 
> hard to do, and could probably take just a few hours to complete (OK, not 
> really, because of stupid Sphinx issues like the one described in comment 7 
> of issue 1949).
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
I would not agree, it is still beneficial, for the sake of brevity, to
view doc-strings without the source code...
And there are minimal cost (except e.g. auto generating epydoc).  It's
not beautiful, but at least it's always up-to-date...

Sorry,
Sebastian

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