Re: Documenting plugins

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Philippe Faes wrote:
> On Monday 28 April 2003 19:53, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Philippe Faes wrote:
> > > Is there now (or will there be pretty soon) a standard format for
> > > documenting plugins? I mean documentation for the end-user, not the
> > > inline documentation of the source code.
> >
> > No one is working on anything like that at the moment.
> >
> > Are you looking for documentation of any plugin in particular?
> >
> > Alan Horkan
> > http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>
> I'm sorry I haven't made myself clear enough: I'm working on what I call
> the SmartListProp right now.  see thread:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2003-April/msg00135.html After
> that I'll do a "digital module" (DigMod) plugin. My DigMod plugin may
> include some non-trivial features, which I'd like to document (a little
> bit).  If no other standards are agreed upon, I'll just dump the
> documentation in a README file...  So I'd like to WRITE some doc, not
> read it.

That's great!  The standard for the main dia docs is DocBook XML, it'd be
nice to stay with that.

> It might be usefull for plugin writers to document their own
> plugins, especially if a whole bunch of obscure plugins show up in the
> future.

Yeah, once the plug-ins start being more advanced than just doing rendering
(e.g. interaction between relevant objects), we will certainly need docs
for them.

-Lars

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