On 23/03/06, Grégoire Dooms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nobody said that you *have* to use Python. I remember reading Hans said > you could develop Perl bindings. > > > I've always found developer documentation for dia to be almost > > entirely absent - I had to reverse engineer the XML format for autodia > > to work because it was undocumented, looking at how to write a perl > > API and allow plugins (two quite large jobs, mostly because the dia > > side is undocumented) shows a complete abscence of any useful tips, > > let alone documentation. This is annoying. > > > > True. But did you take the time to document that XML format and release > it to the open crowd of wanna be contributors ?
I believe I made some documentation of it at the time and responded to queries when emailed about it, however I can't find the notes I made now due to bitrot. However the template in Autodia makes it pretty clear, as do the comments in the code. > Well everybody has its bad hours. Is it any more constructive to raise > this matter into a flaming war ? Not really, I just don't like python zealots, and right now I'm having a particularly bad week dealing with code written by a PHP Weenie and somebody who the bosses describe as a 'genius', it's a complete trainwreck and the few scraps of documentation available are either, out of date, brainstorming disguised as specifications, or plainly incorrect. God save me from 'clever' programmers. A. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
