But there can still be an official Doxyfile so people can easily generate an API reference by running doxygen in the source root.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Louis Santillan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why isn't there an official Doxyfile and an official API reference > website? > > Because the source tree is always the most up-to-date source tree. > The API is obsolete almost as soon as it's published. The API tends > to change (not drastically) every 8-12 weeks (in my estimation). The > v8 team does not intend to support old versions/APIs for very long, > usually about less than 12 months (again, in my estimation). > > Essentially, as soon as Chrome creates an API requirement, v8 goes > about fulfilling it, when it's fulfilled, the Chrome team goes about > porting to the new API. It's pretty amazing how quickly and > consistently they can iterate and innovate. I mean, you see how > quickly you update your Chrome versions right? Some of the APIs are > probably less than a month old by the time they hit Chrome -stable. > > Pace blows away the old Spider Monkey development model I had watched > in the late 90s up until about 5 years ago. They used to rev every > 9-18 months on dot minor releases (and never made it to 2.0). To get > a sense, click the CL links on their API Changelog [0] (that's what > I'm calling it). > > [0] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g8JFi8T_oAE_7uAri7Njtig7fKaPDfotU6huOa1alds/edit > > -- > -- > v8-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
