Swell!

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <le...@telus.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Now there are comparison tools to consider :-). I'm not trying to push
> anyone into a move to reST. It's just that I was planning to go through the
> docs and standardize things like function protocols. Then the thread about
> user contributions to the docs came up, and I figured now would be the time
> to change to reST if that is desirable. For me, I will confirm everything we
> can currently do with makeref.py and helpers can also be done with
> docutils/Sphinx before continuing. I've already committed to SVN incarnation
> 2 of a doc to reST translator, makerst.py, as a starting point to see what
> can be done with reST. It already produces Python markup that compiles,
> without errors, using jug's Pygame reST build tools (
> https://bitbucket.org/schlangen/pygame-docs/). So now we can play around
> and see what is possible before committing to reST.
>
> Lenard
>
> On 05/03/11 01:34 AM, René Dudfield wrote:
>
>  On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Peter Shinners <p...@shinners.org<mailto:
>> p...@shinners.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    [snip...]
>>    Doing a one time conversion from the current Pygame docs should be
>>    easy, it was always meant to be.  One current feature is that
>>    function signatures and summaries are translated into header files
>>    that are built into the extension source. One big missing feature
>>    is that reference docs do not pull docstrings from of the .py
>>    files, which was always desired.
>>
>>
>> Hey ya,
>>
>> There's a tool to create .doc files from modules that were made for the
>> last release.
>>    python create_doc_from_py.py pygame.sprite
>>
>> There's also a tool to help find out what is not documented:
>>    python compare_docs.py pygame.sprite sprite.doc
>>
>> They're hidden in the test/util/ directory... but I've documented them in
>> the Hacking guide with the rest of the documentation on writing docs for
>> pygame lives.
>> http://pygame.org/wiki/Hacking
>>
>>
>> cya!
>>
>
>

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