On Friday, January 05, 2007, at 02:30PM, "Fredrik Lundh"
Talin wrote:
Rather than fixing on a standard markup, I would like to see support for a __markup__ module variable which specifies the specific markup language that is used in that module. Doc processors could inspect that variable and then load the appropriate markup translator.
Ideally, a module should be able to specify what *documentation provider* to use. Not everyone wants to stuff everything into docstrings, and, especially if you're building larger components, automatic introspection simply doesn't work very well.
+lots on that. This is not only true for larger components but projects like wxpython, pyqt and pyobjc could also use these hooks to add links to the C version of those libraries (I don't know about pyqt but wxpython and pyobjc both have choosen to document the differences with the C library instead of trying to duplicate their work). Ronald