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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, L wrote:

>> We've looked at the people on the mailing list many times, but we've
>> never seen people sticking out their neck and actually doing something
>> along these lines. It takes long-range commitment, which is probably
>> what scares many people off...
>
> You do have to have discussions, before you implement something big like this. I'm
> not just talking out my my fat mouth here. I'm honestly fearing that having more than
> one documentation engine out there will cause some harm, instead of some good. That,
> and of course I don't program in PHP any more, so I may not even be of help to the
> current freepascal engine anyway (and last I looked, I couldn't see the PHP code on
> SVN anyway - just html. Maybe I missed it).

You probably did. The main site is indeed a static site.

Only the directories html/bugs and html/contrib contain PHP code.
They are scheduled for rewriting in FPC. (in fact, you'll see the code
for the pre-PHP cgi website in those directories as wel)

Michael.