On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:25:20 +0000 Andrew Williams <[email protected]> said:
> Hi, > > Unfortunately dokuwiki is not markdown - Well... it is markdown AND markup with an eclectic mix of both. there isn't a single markdown format. every wiki has it's own which is slightly different, but commonly they have very short ways to do a link (especially inside the wiki), and use **, //, for bold/italic or similar, equals for headlines etc. ... so i'd call it markdown. it is a very specific kind of markdown. > https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax , what I was proposing moves us to the > php extended markdown which is well known and supported by most php based > apps if not more. > By changing to a standardised format we can have better interoperability > and also have our auto generated docs integrate into the website much > better. why do we need interoperability? the docs really only have one main purpose. to be displayed by dokuwiki. as i gather you are proposing to put content into the dokuwiki content tree ... and that by definition is dokuwiki markdown/up/whatever ... one of the ideas for our documentation was to have the docs be live editable content on the wiki and auto-generation from source is really all about building the templates and raw "code content" then having sections that are user editable along even with user discussion threads. the php doc site works this way so questions and answers about apis, classes or topics stay together with the docs and become part of them. if the docs on something could be improved, any user can improve them just by editing the wiki. thus i see the need to have the wiki format be consistent and the docs are very closely tied to dokuwiki. > As for languages the figuring was that we have a specific list of supported > languages for the new interfaces work. I may have missed a line or two as > there was nothing to add or I forgot - but we could be more explicit for > sure. > What do the community think are our official supported languages? We have a > lot of manual binding or external contributions so it’s kind of hard to > tell... I'd say lua is probably the most important and interesting. it's already used for documentation generation. it's used inside efl (edje and evas filters). it also is the only language other than c++ that doesn't need extra dependencies beyond what efl already has. we have libelua even as an easy front end to use for using lua script in your code. c++ i'd say is a very close second since it also needs now extra dependencies and we already build by default out of the box like we do with lua. the next batch would be python (which we have no generators for in tree yet) and js (node.js/v8), with c# at the end ATM. > Thanks, > Andrew > On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 at 05:48, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:53:09 +0000 Andrew Williams <[email protected]> > > said: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am looking at how we should be trying to structure our documentation as > > > we update for interfaces and slowly move aside the legacy pages. > > > > > > I've made this page to summarise my thinking so far - capturing what we > > > should migrate, what we should add and a few items that don't seem to fit > > > yet in the new structure. I have linked tickets from the main doc > > > improvement task as well to see how much we've got covered. > > > > > > https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/doc_system/doc_structure/ > > > > what about lua? and c++? at least your sample list seems to be a bit > > inconsistent with languages in sections. is this intended? or just an > > oversight? > > > > > Please let me know what you think - I hope this is heading in the right > > > direction. Of note is that it splits the dev docs out from the user docs > > > which will also make it easier to transition :) > > > > comment about .md.txt vs .txt - why? everything in the wiki is already > > .txt and > > it's markdown by definition... if you create a wiki page its always just > > .txt > > when going through the web ui... why change the pattern already there. i > > also > > am not sure the urls to pages will come out nicely if its .md.txt instead > > of > > just .txt. e.g.: > > > > https://www.enlightenment.org/docs/c/start > > > > is the url for docs/c/start.txt > > > > otherwise i see no issues with what you put there. :) > > > > > Cheers, > > > Andy > > > -- > > > http://andywilliams.me > > > http://ajwillia.ms > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > > Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] > > > > -- > http://andywilliams.me > http://ajwillia.ms -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
