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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	"Gabriel Barreto" <sbarreto.gabriel@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>, "John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Introducing GSoC project: API Documentation Generation
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 17:18:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnobrg37.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2395213-efaf-6d6c-6cfd-d949d071b4f6@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Tue, 21 May 2019 12:55:36 +0200")

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 21/05/19 10:53, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
[...]
>> QEMU should pick a tool which is well established / widely used & thus
>> stands a good chance of being maintained for the long term, as we don't
>> want to end up relying on abandonware in 5 years time.  The kernel-doc
>> project is not widely used, but its main user is significant enough that
>> it isn't likely to die through lack of maintainers.
>
> A couple years ago I didn't have problems modifying kerneldoc for QEMU's
> syntax, it was a 10 lines patch.  Unfortunately I cannot find it anymore.

"QEMU's syntax" --- excuse me while I guffaw.

What you (quite charitably) call "syntax", I call a habit of imitating
examples.

Anyway.  What's so special about QEMU that justifies coming up with our
own doc syntax?  Other than "we made a hash of it, and cleaning it up
would be work".


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-21 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-20 18:41 [Qemu-devel] Introducing GSoC project: API Documentation Generation Eduardo Habkost
2019-05-20 18:48 ` John Snow
2019-05-21  8:53 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-05-21  9:43   ` Peter Maydell
2019-05-21 11:06     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-05-21 10:55   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-21 15:18     ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2019-05-21 15:25       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-05-21 15:27       ` Peter Maydell
2019-05-21 17:14         ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-21 20:32         ` John Snow
2019-05-21 20:37           ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-05-22  8:20             ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-23 12:20               ` John Snow
2019-05-24 18:34                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-24 19:08                   ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-05-24 20:02                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-21 16:17     ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-05-21 17:14       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-21  9:42 ` Peter Maydell
2019-05-21 11:01   ` Paolo Bonzini

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