Del Merritt wrote: > Anyway, does anyone care to offer some history as to why both of these > architectural pages seem to have fallen quietly by the side? > Hi Del,
well, you gave the answer to that yourself - it's not automatically generated from the source code & thus quickly outdated. I maintain a subset of doxygen-generated documentation pages here http://docs.go-oo.org/ , which in principle could also contain medium- to high-level design documentation (see e.g. http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/vigra/doc/vigra/index.html for a different project) - if someone would write it. One of the specific problems of OOo is the fact that so much code is already written, and only a comparatively small fraction gets touched or even written anew per release; so in a commercial setting, there's little short-term incentive to demand proper documentation for the code touched (requesting after-the-fact documentation of the existing, sometimes ages-old code, is even more illusionary). I'm by no means happy about that, and well aware of the fact how much of a barrier of entry this is. Regards, -- Thorsten
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