On 10 June 2010 10:53, Tim Vandermeersch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Noel O'Boyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8 June 2010 22:18, Noel O'Boyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 8 June 2010 17:59, Tim Vandermeersch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Andrew has raised some important issues with outdated docs etc. I
>>>> think we should turn all wiki pages into in-source documentation
>>>> (using doxygen for example) that is updated nightly. The current wiki
>>>> is just not suited for maintainability IMHO, there is no real overview
>>>> of files. We can't grep through it. It can also be a set of test
>>>> files, as long as it is easier to maintain. Do we really benefit from
>>>> the wiki? I mean: Are there users contributing to the wiki who
>>>> wouldn't if we moved it to svn/git.
>>>
>>> I don't think we should replace the wiki with doxygen, but we could
>>> replace it with sphinx. We could then use "breathe" to bridge from
>>> that to the existing API docs, which I guess we will still keep in
>>> doxygen format. We are planning (or at least I was :-) ) to move to
>>> Sphinx anyway with molcore, so we can just bring it forward a bit.
>>>
>>> I'll work on a proof of concept if this sounds like a plan.
>>
>> The doxygen docs look much better than "breathe". Moving the wiki docs
>> to Sphinx at least will enforce a hierarchy, our main problem with the
>> current docs as I see it. There seem to be Mediawiki to RST converts
>> available so I'll see how that goes...maybe tomorrow....
>
> Did you know you can use github for hosting html pages? This would
> make it very easy to update, you just push to github. See
> http://pages.github.com/ for more info.

Well, I think that's a whole separate can-of-worms, I mean, discussion. :-)

>>>> I've but serious effort in documenting my changes to the
>>>> stereochemistry but this can only be seen by generating the developer
>>>> docs.
>>>
>>> I know - it looks really good. Now that we have a nightly build, we
>>> should set up automatic generation of the docs and make them available
>>> from http://openbabel.org/dev-api. Assuming that we are still using
>>> SourceForge for this, I can scp the docs there automatically.
>>>
>>> - Noel
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
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