Some initial implementations of a recipe may only be in C, so it would be nice to have a standard way of finding the recipe that wasn't dependent on the language that implements the recipe.
ben James Strachan wrote: > 2008/7/17 Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Excellent proposal. The only thing I would add is that there should be >> an english description of the recipe in subversion. That way if someone >> wanted to do a compatible binding they can do it. If the recipe is on >> the wiki it would be hard to keep it in sync, so it is important that it >> is in subversion. My preference would be that the doc would be in the >> same contrib subdirectory as the source for ease of maintenance. >> > > Good idea. How about for Java recipe's we include the documentation as > HTML with the javadoc so we can link to it easily and so that the > recipe is kept with the code & versioned nicely (so as the > recipe/algorithm changes we version it with the source code etc) > >