Re: Announce: Gjs documentation almost ready!



2014-02-27 16:53 GMT+01:00 Stefan Sauer <ensonic hora-obscura de>:
On 02/26/2014 08:27 PM, Giovanni Campagna wrote:

Hello desktop developers,

as some of you may have noticed, there has been some activity on the
documentation generator for gobject-introspection, and in particular a
lot of improvements on the Gjs side.
Now the result are beginning to appear, and you can see them here:
https://people.gnome.org/~gcampagna/docs/

In particular, what is interesting is that we blend in generated and
manually edited documentation. This allows us to remove all of GLib
and GObject that is not interesting or badly annotated, and it lets us
add things like GObject.Class (
https://people.gnome.org/~gcampagna/docs/GObject-2.0/GObject.Class.html
), which is the gjs specific way to define new GTypes.
I hope to finish with the other overrides soon (the biggest ones are
GLib.Variant and Gio.DBus*, but there's some minor stuff), which
should solve one of the greatest hurdles in taking up gjs programming.
The sources for this generation are not hosted anywhere, because I
don't know if it makes sense to store generated (or semi-generated)
files in git. I think it does, at least for GLib and GObject, because
the update is always manual. cairo has the same problem, because we
bind it manually, and the "native" gjs modules need documentation too.

Of course, this location is only temporary, and I hope we will move to
library-web at some point. This would also fix the styling, which
right now is "poor" (it's a pure yelp-build of the mallard docs).
The interesting part, though, is that the documentation, at least for
the schematic parts, is correct and existing.


awesome! A few comments/questions:

1) are there plans to get this into devhelp? We need to figure a namespace
scheme for binding docs. The devhelp app itself already understands
different languages. All we need is a index file like the ones gtk-doc
generates.

No, there are no plans to get this in devhelp. The HTML output is
really just a way to get them somewhere in the internet without
blocking on library-web, but the real deliverable is mallard, and
devhelp does not understand that (while library-web does)

2) I think it would be nice to share the css with gtk-doc so that the
various docs are closer to each other.

3) there seem to be empty Returns: tags in the docs - e.g.
https://people.gnome.org/~gcampagna/docs/Gst-1.0/Gst.Pipeline.get_bus.html

Fixed now.

4) having these " // Gjs wrapper for gst_pipeline_get_bus()" comment in the
method synopsis looks weird.

That comment was Jasper's idea, my idea was "[native code for ...]"
(similar to what JS uses for native code functions already).
The comment syntax has the advantage of being valid JS - which is also
a disadvantage, in a way, because if you try to run that code nothing
happens...

Again thanks for doing this. I look forward to see a quick write out how the
docs are generated.

You can see the Makefile in gjs-documentation for now, it's fairly simple.

Giovanni


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