[Twisted-Python] epydoc and Twisted

R. Church rc at ghostbitch.org
Thu Aug 22 14:13:23 EDT 2002


Wouldn't epydoc be 60% to 70% better if it actually linked to
(chromakeyed) source code?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:12:49PM -0600, Bruce Mitchener quipped:
> Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> >On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 11:59, Bruce Mitchener wrote:
> >>Thoughts on how we should deal with the import problem are welcome.  Is 
> >>that a roadblock in the way of switching from happydoc to epydoc?
> >
> >I have no response to your question, but I have some comments to make.
> >
> >1. converting generate-domdocs to use epydoc seems it'll be really easy
> >-- it'll just require a slightly modified regexp-builder, afaics. I'll
> >get to that soon.
> 
> Cool, I didn't really want to do that.
> 
> >2. I hope we're going to start using the @foo mechanisms that epydoc
> >uses in Twisted -- it'll make our API references much more
> >information-rich. Does anyone have any problems with that?
> 
> I hope not.  I'd be very disappointed.  The informatation that they've 
> been providing in work docs has been a big help.
> 
> I do wish that epydoc generated more internal links .. might be a good 
> thing for someone to add.  I've got some other epydoc patches that I'll 
> end up contributing I guess.
> 
>  - Bruce
> 
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