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Re: Documentation frustrations
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Re: Documentation frustrations


  • Subject: Re: Documentation frustrations
  • From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 02:17:53 -0400


On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:

I like this formal structure too, but I wonder where you draw the line...


I guess this is where the online-database would come in. One could activate/deactivate what information one is interested in. I agree that thread-safety and reentrancy statements would be handy. "Blocking" is too generic. I'd guess that aspect can only be described in textual docs.



Folks, there is nothing here that requires a database. I'm going to go out on a limb here... there was apparently a time when this was all kept in a database at the Function level (this wasn't the Obj-C stuff). It simply didn't work very well apparently as a writing process.


This type of 'selective' display could be accomplished in many different ways (the simplest being CSS style sheets), if this type of format was adopted. But none of it requires the expense of an on line database.

Also, the idea of there being an online database application that you viewed the doc through is pretty unlikely. That precludes users from having the same documentation on their machine in the same access format.

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