[OpenLayers-Dev] [OpenLayers-Users] A new Era of... documentation!

Erik Uzureau erik.uzureau at metacarta.com
Tue Jul 10 10:21:00 EDT 2007


That is a good idea Jachym. I'll see if we can get that done
erik

On 7/10/07, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> great work, thanks a lot for it.
>
> In previous version of the documentation, it was possible to display
> also the source of each file. Is there a way, how to do it in this new
> viewer?
>
> Jachym
>
> Christopher Schmidt píše v Pá 29. 06. 2007 v 12:24 -0400:
> > (Follow-up to users at openlayers.org.)
> >
> > So, as of about 15 minutes ago, the trunk of OpenLayers has been
> > completely reworked to be documented in NaturalDocs style instead of
> > JSDoc style.
> >
> > What does this mean for you?
> >
> > For everyone, there is now a more complete set of OpenLayers
> > documentation, which can be built by anyone, and a full set of docs
> > written in that style.
> >
> > For users, we now have a set of documentation about what APIs,
> > properties, etc. we promise to keep the same from version to version.
> > The Properties, Methods, classes, etc. that are documented at
> > http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/ will not change without a major
> > version bump (or, in some extreme cases, a strong majority opinion to
> > the contrary, as in the non-working Canvas code that has been removed
> > from trunk).
> >
> > For developers, we now have a much more complete set of documentation,
> > describing everything in and around the OpenLayers classes.
> > http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/ In addition, you can generate these docs
> > using the natural docs command line tool, so when you're writing your own
> > code, you can generate the docs and see how your docs look.
> >
> > There are a lot of people who have put effort in, and improving the
> > existing documentation is going to continue to be a challenge -- but
> > we've now taken the documentation we *do* have and made it available in
> > a way that we didn't have as of even 2 weeks ago. Thanks so much ot all
> > the people who worked on this, and we're looking forward to seeing what
> > happens now that people actually know what's inside OpenLayers :)
> >
> > Regards,
> --
> Jachym Cepicky
> e-mail: jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
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