Brian Ewins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/06/2003 06:29:09 PM: > Michal Maczka wrote: > > > > > I think we should go step further and get rid of plugin.properties file... > > in favour of metadata file. > > It can look like: > [snip] > > BTW: We anyway need plugin metadata file which can be used by IDEs. > > Agree 100%. > > We also need it for documentation. Its quite common for people to ask > 'what property do I set to do....' because there are so many > undocumented properties. If there was a metadata file that described > plugin properties, it could be used to generate the xdocs. There is one. It's called plugin.properties, and it can be used to generate the xdocs :-)
The reason the documentation is lacking is noone has been willing to do it. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ Work: http://www.multitask.com.au
