On 06/30/2010 03:13 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Erich Hooverehoover@mines.edu writes:
Alright, well then I won't do it. Is the existing documentation going to be stripped at some point? It seems to me like we would benefit from more-detailed function descriptions in the auto-generated API documentation. I think it would save a lot of time for new developers to get their feet wet if they were able to see directly in the source what the different functions are supposed to do (as best as we know) and exactly what applications will trigger known edge cases (or if there's a test for a given situation).
That's what the source code and test cases are for. If you rely on the function documentation you are in trouble anyway, nobody bothers to update it when new behaviors are discovered.
If you really want to write good API documentation, as opposed to the current useless one-sentence-per-parameter description, you'd need probably a text 10 times the size of the source code for each function. That can't go in the source files.
That documentation has to be stored somewhere. Where?