[fpc-pascal] Re: fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Tue Aug 14 10:53:11 CEST 2012


On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:37:46 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

>[...]
> The following is meant as constructive advice, not criticism:
> Very well, how many people do you think use fpdoc *and* customize
> fpdoc.css?

I thought almost everyone does that.


> Even then, copying fpdoc.css to the bin directory would give
> a sensible default, no? If people want to customize it, replace it etc
> they can then always do so.

Please put only binaries into the bin. It might be in PATH.

 
> If you want your fpdoc.exe usable from the bin directory, I'd just copy
> over fpdoc.css during install.
> 
> Now we've got 2 different behaviours:
> - fpdoc in the source directory has fpdoc.css and will generate chm/html
> files with it
> - fpdoc in the bin directory doesn't have it.
> In my view this difference in behaviour is unnecessary and only server
> to needlessly further increase the complexity of the fpdoc system...

Having two binaries with the same name is somewhat confusing.

Mattias



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