Re: gtk-docs [was: Updated libgnomecanvas docs]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

[cc'ing to gtk-doc-list ]

Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote:

> All
>
> I've been working on SourceBase (http://sourcebase.sf.net/) which is a
> generic parser library with support for pluggable storage backends and
> parsers. The current set of parsers include C, C++, Java, M4, Python,
> etc. The significant thing is that the parsers can handle comments,
> cross-freference, inheritence and other goodies, so it should be pretty
> easy to do everything Doxygen, gtk-doc, etc. can with a bit of effort.
>
> If there is interest in replacing gtk-doc with something more generic
> and extensible, please let me know. SourceBase is pretty small (Glib is
> the only dependency) and the parsers are pretty good (based off source
> navigator). I'm hoping to make a release by the end of this month.
>  
Something like this might be helpful if we wanted to expand the input 
parsing capabilities.

On the subject of the glib requirement, this would result in a circular 
dependency, since glib itself uses gtk-doc to build its documentation.  
We would need to work out how to work around this problem (or decide to 
ignore it).

James.

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