Re: GTK+ API reference in source distribution?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Eric Monsler <emonsler beamreachnetworks com> writes:

> Um, my tarball didn't include either a tmpl/ or a sgml/ directory.  
> There are some sgml files, for example the tutorial (which maybe also
> should be modified), but nothing that is visibly the API reference.  

The reference docs are only included with the sources in the development
branch of GTK+-1.3.x which is leading to GTK+-2.0.
 
> And, the gtkfilesel.c code for gtk_file_selection_get_filename() has no
> documentation (or comments) immediately adjacent to it.
> 
> I pulled down gtk+-1.2.8.tar.gz on July 12th of 2000.
> 
> Here's my tree structure:
> 
> emonsler hawaii:avs$ find gtk+-1.2.8 -type d
> gtk+-1.2.8
> gtk+-1.2.8/examples
> gtk+-1.2.8/examples/aspectframe
> (other directories under examples/ snipped...)
> gtk+-1.2.8/examples/wheelbarrow
> gtk+-1.2.8/intl
> gtk+-1.2.8/po
> gtk+-1.2.8/gdk
> gtk+-1.2.8/gdk/.libs
> gtk+-1.2.8/gtk
> gtk+-1.2.8/gtk/.libs
> gtk+-1.2.8/docs
> gtk+-1.2.8/docs/html
> gtk+-1.2.8/docs/text
> 
> 
> Do I need the CVS tree to get documentation sources?

You can get the 1.3.2 tarball, though since GTK+-1.3.x is in flux,
if you want to make patches to the development branch, it may be
better to get the latest CVS sources.

Regards,
                                        Owen