Re: doxymacs
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew W Nosenko
<awn(a)bcs.zp.ua> writes:
Andrew> I don't have "right of veto", but (IMHO) idea of packaging
Andrew> of doxygen's binary with doxymacs (or any another major or
Andrew> minor mode) should be vetoed.
I see. So should we remove etags and movemail? I think doxygen is
quite analogous to etags, although more complex. And etags is in the
core.
It all depends on how much work the maintainer wants to do. If
someone wants to maintain a doxygen.el package, and supply doxygen
with it, and address the problems of ensuring the necessary
dependencies are present on user machines, I don't see a problem with
that.
If it's that tough, then we'll have problems finding a maintainer
willing to do the work. So this will veto itself. If it doesn't, as
far as we're concerned it's just some more disk space. As far as
users are concerned, doxygen.el is useless without doxygen, so they
won't install the package if they're unwilling to install the
dependencies.
Am I missing something?
Yes. To me, as a user, having doxymacs.el packages would be wonderful,
especially if the vague problems that my personal copy has WRT priority
of it's font locking were solved.[1]
Having a version of doxygen download with it would irritate me no end
because:
* I use the Debian package of Doxygen on this machine.
* I maintain machines where Doxygen run remotely, never on that machine.
* Doxygen is big, doxymacs.el isn't.
The last point is probably far more a concern for me here in Australia
and for th British, both of which are countries where bandwidth is close
to prohibitively expensive.
So, in summary: I need Doxygen to make this produce output ... but I get
this from somewhere other than XEmacs -- and *doxymacs* is still useful
without the ability to run the tool and produce the results.
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Can anyone suggest a quick way of fixing it so that it's font lock
faces don't get covered over by the comment face when fontifying
the buffer?
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