[fpc-devel] [RFC] fpdoc output comment from the source

Vincent Snijders vsnijders at quicknet.nl
Mon Dec 19 11:51:41 CET 2005


L wrote:
>>under the documents (who wouldn't?).
>>
>>The author, for one :-)
>>
>>The commenting system puts extra load on the server which I don't want.
> 
> 
> 
> Amazon.com has a patent on one click shopping, I believe. I think I know why.
> 
> Well, with the FindPart function, back 7 months ago.. I found an error in the docs
> regarding the Result/Return value. I reported it - but was too lazy to submit a
> patch. And guess what, the findpart error in the documentation is still there today,
> 7 months later.
> 
> Wait a minute - *lazy* is actually the wrong word. Forget I said lazy. I'm far from
> lazy. I'm a hard worker. And yet my animal instinct still tells me that making a doc
> patch via the current setup, or adding a comment via the current setup, is not
> natural. My instinct, as an animal, is to leave the error in the docs and move on to
> other things. It's not one click shopping.
> 

But if you only leave a comment, it still isn't fixed in the source (of the 
documentation). This means next release still will contain, because the comments are 
not part of the distributed docs.

Vincent.



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