[Mapserver-users] Perl/Python/Ruby mapscript development documentation

[Lowell Filak]

Thank you to all the developers.

Lowell

The following message was sent by Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> on
Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:19:40 -0700.

> Hi,
> 
> Following the example of the PHP-mapscript developers, we are now 
> maintaining
> documentation for the development mapscript in a text file.  In CVS in 
> can be
> found at mapscript/doc/mapscript.txt.  Language-specific appendices 
> will be
> at mapscript/doc/python.txt etc.  This new documentation fills the same 
> role as
> the README file under mapscript/php3.  Is a work in progress, but I'm 
> chipping
> away at it every day and we'll be caught up with the current state of 
> the
> development code soon.
> 
> We are trying out restructured text as a file format.  It provides just 
> enough
> structure that it can be parsed and rendered into XML or HTML.  During 
> the
> evaluation of mapscript.txt I will be regularly generating HTML from 
> the text source
> and putting it up at
> 
> http://users.frii.com/sgillies/examples/mapscript.html
> 
> Links to the original text source and documentation about reST and 
> links to
> download of reST tools are at the bottom of the page.  If users 
> appreciate this
> development documentation, I'll work the generation of HTML docs into 
> the mapserver
> nightly build.
> 
> If you have considerations that you'd like to add to Bugzilla regarding 
> the
> development docs, join the discussion here
> 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=576
> 
> or discuss here on the list and I'll try to summarize on Bugzilla.
> 
> cheers,
> Sean
> 
> 
> --
> Sean Gillies
> sgillies at frii dot com
> http://users.frii.com/sgillies
> 
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