On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Marcus Boerger wrote:

> Hello Antony,
> 
> Thursday, April 26, 2007, 12:05:07 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > On 04/26/2007 01:45 AM, Gwynne Raskind wrote:
> >> Hmm... For some reason I missed that in my searches. That being 
> >> said, the existence of one doesn't preclude the writing of another 
> >> :).  Also, it seems the official documentation in the PHP manual 
> >> could use some serious updating, which I would also be willing to 
> >> undertake if people think that would be more useful.
> 
> > Actually I've been recently thinking of adding some kind of 
> > documentation to the sources. Surely this is not supposed to be 
> > something similar to php.net/manual/, just short descriptions of 
> > functions and their arguments, which can be used as a start for the 
> > "real" documentation. But I wasn't lucky enough to find a utility 
> > that would fit my (personal) needs.
> 
> > Doxygen (which seems to be uses by the majority of F/OSS projects) 
> > generates completely unreadable docs. Every time I look into ICU 
> > docs (generated by Doxygen) I get lost for 10 minutes trying to find 
> > a function _by name_. In the same time, other tools do not provide 
> > such a wide range of output formats as available in Doxygen.
> 
> Hu? It has a search option if you want. And it has alphabetical lists 
> for functions, consts, classes, files, modules, whatever. And if that 
> is not enough we could take it's xml output to feed a database and 
> provide a fulltext search on that.

That doesn't make the docs more readable though... 

Derick

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