Re: [Vala] Examples in documentation



Thanks Florian, looks good. I think we can probably get by without a login
since the community is pretty small. I guess if spam starts showing up we
will need to address that.


On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Florian Brosch <flo brosch gmail com>wrote:

Hey Steven,

It is usually less painful to write a data extractor. However, I'm
personally not planning to work on non-gnome-docs at all.


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>
wrote:
My biggest complaint with vala's docs isn't valadoc, it does well enough
for
what it is. Also, the comment feature sounds nice as long as the
community
takes care of it (eg Wikipedia) but I have seen plenty of wikis that
aren't
taken care of too. I worry vala's active community as this point is still
too small for that though. There's only one way to find out though!

My biggest complaint is more the complete lack of valadoc compatible
comments in the code itself. I would rather see people submit patches
that
add valadoc comments to code; _especially_ to the vapis. For example
Sqlite
is completely devoid of valadoc comments in it's vapi.

http://unstable.valadoc.org/#!api=sqlite3/Sqlite

I looked up the vapi, it's not difficult to figure out:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/tree/vapi/sqlite3.vapi

Steven N. Oliver



On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Brian Duffy <brduffy gmail com> wrote:

Very much looking forward to this feature! What do you think of Luca's
suggestions? ETA?


On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Florian Brosch <flo brosch gmail com>
wrote:

Hey guys,

I'm already working on a comment system:

http://unstable.valadoc.org/


On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Gilzad Hamuni <gilli4 gmx net> wrote:
Hi all,

maybe it's already there and I missed to see it. Is it possible to
have
some account on an existing valadoc-page, so one could add
code-examples
online rather than working with the markup locally?


Knowing that vala is still evolving, I'm facing one issue that
probably
could be solved rapidly.

Except of the given tutorials, if someone wants to implement some
feature in his application, he either has to

1) guess how he'd use the vala bindings (requires firm experience
with
glib) or

2) he has to derive the vala-code from some existing C-code, that is
using the same library or

3) crawl through some existing vala-projects that would offer an
example, somewhere deep inside their source.


Now, once a dev has achieved to have some working code, he might
want
to
share this as an example, so others will quickly find out how to use
function X from vapi Y.

Wouldn't it boost vala's easy-to-efficient-ratio, if code-examples
were
attached to the documentation (like on msdn or php.net)? Maybe it
could
be some great advertising, too "Wow, that's just a three-liner!".


Sorry if this has been discussed before, I couldn't find anything
related after a quick search.

Best,

Gilzad
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