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On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:14 PM, Campbell Barton wrote:
Barry pointed out that docs could be generated with epydoc inspecting the C api directly, Id be interested to know if you had much epydoc spesific stuff in
these docstrings, though i was aware this was possible in some cases, you
end up with nicer docs if they include formatting tags.
I'm not sure if you were asking me this question, but I'll answer
anyway :). Yes! We put epydoc markup in our C API docstrings and
epydoc almost all the right things. As I mentioned there were a
couple of quirks due to import weirdness or inheritance but 98% of
the docstrings worked great.
I should note one other bit of funny business, Writing multiline
docstrings in C is a royal PITA of course, especially if you ever
have to re-fill a paragraph. Ain't no TQS's there! The one thing
that bit us fairly often was a limit on the number of characters
inside a string literal that Microsoft's compiler imposed on us. Our
code was portable between gcc and MSVC (Studio Enterprise .NET
Ultramarine Whizzy XP Light and Happiness Edition 2003 (tm)(r)(c)
(blah)). gcc never had a problem but with MSVC we couldn't use the \n
\ trick after 1024 characters. We'd have to close the literal and
start again. There was probably some magic config buried under
30,000 menu options, but we never found it.
- -Barry
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