Re: source documentation tool doxygen

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <jgardner(at)jonathangardner(dot)net>
Subject: Re: source documentation tool doxygen
Date: 2006-01-16 13:57:53
Message-ID: 38611.68.143.134.146.1137419873.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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Thomas Hallgren said:
> I wish I've had this when I started working with PostgreSQL. This looks
> really good. Very useful indeed, even without the comments. What kind
> of changes are needed in order to get the comments in?
>

I too have done this. But retrofitting Doxygen style comments to the
PostgreSQL source code would be a big undertaking. Maintaining it, which
would be another task for reviewers/committers, would also be a pain unless
there were some automated checking tool.

cheers

andrew

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