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Re: Library documentation



On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:50:04PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> As an additional hinderence, the library has a c++ interface, from
> which the doxygen creates thousands of one-liner .so man-pages. (One
> for each member.) With this strategy, it is painfully clear, that the
> man namespace is utterly cluttered with junk. (There's nothing
> objectionable about a SomeClass::write method, but a write.3 manpage
> for this?)

Right, in that case I agree that slews of man pages are probably
inappropriate. If a single man page for the whole library (like
libpng(3)) is possible, then that would be good.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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