Re: gtk-doc resolution-independen branch

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Davyd Madeley schrieb:
> Hey,
> 
> Yeah. I did wonder about adding GTK+ specific code there, but I noticed
> there was already a stack of it, so I didn't feel too upset.
> 
> I think using plugins is a good idea though.
> 
> Maybe the solution is to allow the passing of an optional Perl module
> (e.g. --with-plugin=gtk.pm) that can define certain hooks within the
> scanner e.g. to fiddle with the type handling etc. We can modify the
> gtk-doc.make to provide a WITH_PLUGIN in the Makefile.am.
> 

Yes, something like that. I think its okay to ship the gtk module with gtk-doc
unless gtk itself wants to take it. I never did a perl module - so I need to
sudy a bit how and where they should be installed.
I should finalize and release 1.12 before though :)

Stefan

> Thoughts?
> 
> --d
> 
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 22:38 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> saw your changes for res-indep gtk branch for gtk-doc. I'd like to discuss how
>> we can handle this better in gtk-doc by using some sort of plugins. gtk+ itself
>> has some gtk-specific support in gtk-doc, but e.g. gstreamer has lots of gobject
>> things that could get some special doc treatment.
>>
>> Ideally gtk-doc itself only knows about gobject and all the gtk-specific things
>> go to a module (that could be active by default for backwards compat). gstreamer
>> things go to a gst module. modules can be activated/deactivated in Makefile.am.
>>
>> I don't have thought this any deeper though.
>>
>> Stefan