apidocs problem

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Fri Aug 12 01:09:29 BST 2005


On Thursday 11 August 2005 04:16 pm, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Thursday 11 August 2005 22:57, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 August 2005 23:42, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > separate bits and pieces. Surely you've noticed that the navigation
> > > of the generated dox pages has improved? At least for people using a
> > > browser :)
> >
> > I never navigated the documentation through a browser as it is much
> > easier to use KDevAssitant. Or at least it was. You should try it. ;-)
>
> Maybe. Hey, looks like I even build KDevelop on a nightly basis, so I even
> have it (those days that it compiles).
>

it compiles most of the time. ;)

> > > > - kio
> > >
> > > Split up - there is kio/kio/kio.tag, kio/kssl/kssl.tag, ...
> >
> > So you mean the .tag files are correct and the KDevelop code is broken?
>
> Yes and no. The tag kio/kio.tag is useless, as you have already noticed,
> since there's nothing in it. All the content it _used_ to have is in the
> tag files in the subdirectories. Now, if KDevelop assumes that tag files
> can only be one deep (ie. in kio/ but not in kio/kio/) then the code has
> bad assumptions, but isn't broken. Subtle.
>
> > > KDevelop is outside my province -- I'm not sure what they use to
> > > generate their dox.
> >
> > Isn't it doxygen as well?
>
> Yes, but I don't think they use the standard KDE dox-building framework
> (that's why the kdevelop dox aren't available via api.kde.org nor
> englishbreakfastnetwork.org), so I don't think I've been messing with their
> stuff.

The KDevelop api documenation is generated completely differently from that of 
regular KDE for reasons that I don't understand.
-- 
Matt




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