QML support in kde.org services

todd rme toddrme2178 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 14:18:27 BST 2011


On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>
>> A Diumenge, 4 de setembre de 2011, Stephen Kelly vàreu escriure:
>>> Harald Sitter wrote:
>>> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Stefan Majewsky
>>> >
>>> > <stefan.majewsky at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> >> 2. api.kde.org doesn't show QML elements.
>>> >
>>> > Problem with this is that Doxygen does not support QML (yet anyway),
>>> > actually I would not know how to make this work in a sane manner
>>> > considering that plenty of QML elements will be directly based of a
>>> > CPP object... (in phonon we actually have the documentation in the cpp
>>> > object which implements the element).
>>> > So, doing this in a meaningful way would likely require using qdoc for
>>> > QML element documentation.
>>>
>>> I think that's something we should consider for kf5 anyway, for the same
>>> reason. qdoc is more free now than when doxygen was created, though it
>>> might not have all useful features of doxygen. Those might need to be
>>> added.
>>
>> What is the point of trying to improve the "worse" of the two options?
>>
>> Albert
>
>
> I have no idea which is worse. I don't know what qdoc is missing.
>
> However, Doxygen doesn't support QML. So we can do one of the following:
>
> * Investigate, then add QML support to doxygen.
> * Don't investigate. Add QML support to doxygen or file a bug report about
> it.
> * Investigate, see what is missing/different in qdoc (which already has QML
> handling), add it and use that.
> * Ignore the issue, not investigate it, and maybe write a blog post about
> how doxygen sucks because it doesn't support QML. Then maybe Dimitry will
> add it.

What about adding qdoc support to doxygen?

-Todd




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