On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 17:08 +0100, Stefan Sauer wrote:
Since people regular illy complain about the slowness of gtk-doc I'd like to evaluate some options. First the slowness is due to using the docbook-xsl stylesheets to produce html/pdf and optionally man pages. One main to get a huge speedup would be to drop the whole docbook toolchain and generate the html output directly from the comment blocks in the code. A nice side effect would be much higher portability. Below is a link to a survey to learn how important pdf/man support would be. Please note that man support means outputting one man-page for each refentry. This is not about dropping output of man-pages for PROGRAM sections (though we need to rethink the tooling here). Please fill the poll, it will be up until end of this year. http://www.polljunkie.com/poll/tiazer/gtkdoc-output-formats Getting there is quite a bit of work. I am working on coming up with a smooth transition plan. For questions, feel free to ask, come to #gtkdoc to discuss etc.
Thanks for putting time and thought into this, Stefan. I appreciate your continued efforts on gtk-doc. Perhaps the poll could be clarified by pointing to some example output in each format (HTML, PDF, man). Pointing to some man output, especially, would help, since I suspect many people aren’t familiar with what’s available there. Philip
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