Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Jason Mobarak <aether@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] coveted features
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:30:43
Message-Id: 20040107211242.GA4632@unm.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] coveted features by Bart Lauwers
1 A tool I use for Python code is epydoc, which is very similar to javadoc, except
2 is uses reST (restructured text). So epydoc is my suggestion if Python is used
3 for portage-ng (or part of it).
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5 On 18:55 Mon 29 Dec , Bart Lauwers wrote:
6 > All the more reason to build the docs from the code directly with doxygen or
7 > whatever. I'm pretty sure nobody writes code with the intent it doesn't get
8 > used, from a coder standpoint having documentation helps feature acceptance.
9 >
10 > This feature probably is documented but since I can't find that documentation
11 > quickly (i.e. just could find it in under 5 minutes) it might as well not
12 > exist to the majority of devs. We s'port too many hidden feats.
13 >
14 > Anyway we've got lots of docs but were lacking a good taxonomy for them, do we
15 > have any librarians helping the docs team? (cc'ing doc to get a reply about
16 > this)
17 >
18 > So let me rephrase that portage docs need to be complete and up to date at all
19 > times (at least an english version, devs should know enough english). Linking
20 > the documentation to the code is the only way I can see this happen.
21 >
22 > Bart.
23 >
24 > On Monday 29 December 2003 00:02, Daniel Robbins wrote:
25 > >
26 > > This results in the current USE settings. I do think that not too many
27 > > people know about auto-USE, so it is somewhat under-utilized.
28 >
29 >
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