2 The TODO list for the gtk-doc project is at Bugzilla,
3 the bugtracking system of the GNOME project.
6 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gtk-doc&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
7 to see what is allready requested, or where you can help. :-)
9 To put an other request on the TODO list, visit
10 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk-doc
13 http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/GtkDocFuture
14 and join discussion about future features.
17 Developers can also add items here :)
20 == get rid of the -section.txt file ==
21 * section-title can be in SECTION comment already
22 * when scanning a header file, everything will be put to one section
23 * like we do for autogenerated section.txt file (gtkdoc-scan)
24 * we need comment markup to override the section
25 e.g.: " * InSection: xxxx"
26 this needs gtkdoc-mkdb::ScanSourceFile to understand a new tag, which
27 otherwise would appear as verbatim in the sources
28 * if one has "@InSection: xxxx" in a section comment we could patch the
29 main.xml file and insert then xi:include line (would possibly rely on a
30 special comment-pair there, we might also need to rewrite these
31 auto-generated xi:includes everytime as the placements could have been
32 changed, or we have a xi:inlcude for each chapter, that we regenerate).
33 * we need a way to specify subsections (Standart, Private)
34 this could be done in the SECTION comment
35 e.g.: "@HideSymbols: <list-of-symbols-to-hide>
36 * we could allow to have a SUBSECTION:xxx comment block too
37 but then we list all the symbols here to override the auto-section placement
38 * if we want to avoid the "InSection in symbol docs we could also have
39 e.g.: "@ExtraSymbols: <list-of-symbols-to-include>
40 * documented symbols that are in a file without section comment and do not
41 appear in "@ExtraSymbols", "@HideSymbols" would go to unused.txt
42 * shall we deprecated the unused sub-sections?
43 * can we have both at the same time (for migration)
44 * yes, read section-file first and add/override from inline comments
47 = More abbreviations =
48 * expand urls (needds more work, see gtkdoc-mkdb : ExpandAbbreviations)
53 diff -u --exclude="Makefile*" docs docs-tmpl | diffstat
57 gtk-doc is using a makefile with several targets to get from sources to docs.
58 It might be easier to have a gtk-doc tool that can run the other gtk-doc tools
59 in the right order (ev. by importing them as modules). This could handle a few
60 things nicer that the makefiles don't do well.
63 * gtkdoc-fixxref makefile targets use $HTML_DIR
64 * HTML_DIR: The directory where gtk-doc generated documentation is installed
65 it comes from gtk-doc.m4 (--with-html-dir) but has no default
66 * automake exports $htmldir which is by default:
67 ${prefix}/share/doc/${PACKAGE_TARNAME}
68 * the Makefile uses $(DESTDIR)$(TARGET_DIR)
69 where TARGET_DIR = $(HTML_DIR)/$(DOC_MODULE)
70 http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/automake/DESTDIR.html
74 We'd like to extend gtk-doc to understand conventions/features of gobject libs.
75 Ideally libs register their extension hooks, so that other libs that use these
76 libs can benefit from the extensions too.
78 == custom get_types collector ==
79 - the default method takes the types from a type file
80 - gstreamer plugin docs take a list of types from the gst plugin registry
82 == custom properties ==
83 - gtk has style and child properties
85 == extra gobject property flags ==
86 - gstreamer has 'controllable' properties
89 * http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html
91 * would be good to be able to have page titles as a concatenation of document
92 name and page name (gtk+:GtkWIdget)
94 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531572 : html-single
95 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466535 : pdf
96 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467488 : man
97 we need more configure options in gtk-doc.m4:
98 --(enable|disable)-gtk-doc-(html|pdf|man|html-single|rtf)
99 - html : enabled by default
100 - html-single : is single page html
102 xmllint --noout --xinclude --postvalid tester-docs.xml
103 xmllint --noout --postvalid tester-docs.fo --dtdvalid file://$HOME/download/fo.dtd
104 - fo.dtd : http://www.renderx.com/Tests/validator/fo.zip
106 xsltproc --nonet --xinclude -o gtk-docs.html /home/ensonic/projects/gtk-doc/gtk-doc-single.xsl gtk-docs.sgml
107 * need to check if we can pass the style-sheet class as a parameter (--stringparam gtkdoc.stylesheet=(chunk|docbook))
108 * we might also need to reflow some things, as gtk-doc.xsl also runs the devhelp/devhelp2 generation
109 - but then the urls in the devhelp file, refer to the chunked html anyway
111 ~/download/fop-0.94/fop -fo tester-docs.fo -rtf tester-docs.rtf
113 unrtf -t ps tester-docs.rtf >tester-docs.ps
114 unrtf -t latex tester-docs.rtf >tester-docs.tex
119 Bugzilla has some requests for extra warnings. We should support a common
120 commandline option(s) in all tools to enable/disable the warnings. The makefiles
121 should pass the flags from an env-var (GTKDOC_OPTIONS). The env-var should be
122 used after the regular flags, so that the env-var can override hardcoded
123 settings (in Makefile.am).
125 Lets take this warning for the example:
126 "Symbol name not found at the start of the comment block."
128 Version 1: (template "warn-xxx!, warn-yyy!")
129 --warn-missing-symbol-at-comment-start
130 --no-warn-missing-symbol-at-comment-start
132 Version 2: (template "warn:s@")
133 -Wmissing-symbol-at-comment-start
134 -Wno-missing-symbol-at-comment-start
135 -warn missing-symbol-at-comment-start
136 -warn no-missing-symbol-at-comment-start
139 - 'deprecated' deprecating 'features'
140 - 'dummy-docs' check if symbol docs are very short and repeat mainly words
142 - possible xrefs (e.g. adding a # or () would make it a successful xref)
147 * we can have /* < protected > */ in classes
148 * we can have <SUBSECTION Protected> in -section.txt
149 * ideally we have Scope: {Public, Protected, Private} supported in doc comments
150 * there is a bg for gir, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594125
156 1) replace gtkdoc-scan/gtkdoc-scangobject by gtkdoc-gir and output the classical files or
157 patch gtkdoc-scan/gtkdoc-scangobject to output gir files
158 2) patch gtkdoc-mkdb to read stuff from gir instead of classical files
159 * if gir-files would have the comments too (they are getting this now):
160 * we could even drop scanning the sources
161 * IDEs could use the gir-files to show doc-tooltips for symbols
162 * we might need yet another makefile flavour to use gir files
164 * http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/04/18/perlxmlqstart1.html
167 * simmillar workflow to gettext
168 * add gtkdoc-mk??? to generate binding doc templates
169 * have c-comments there as comments
170 * when updating templates, mark sections that have changed as fuzzy
171 * add options to gtkdoc-mkdb to build docbook from those templates
173 * could we use the tmpl file mechanism?
174 * directory structure?
175 * we need to list the languages like ALL_LINGUAS for translations
176 * we need to create subdirs for binding docs, ideally we use one for 'C' as well
178 * devhelp files need a language attribute in the book-tag
179 language={C,C++,JavaScript,Perl,Python,...}
180 * devhelp could show a selector for the language
181 * need to get existing python/~mm docs to use it, gtk-doc could output
182 language=C for own docs
184 * need to install each book with a prefix
185 * would be good to have a language attribute in book tag to allow filter by language
186 * look at /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/pygobject/index.html
190 Its tedious to write large amounts of docbook.
193 We need parametric, user definable macros.
194 |[ ... ]| - programlistings
195 |macro(arg1,arg2,...)[ ... ]| - call macro
196 - pass args as parameters (on the commandline)
197 - pass some gtk-doc vars in environment
198 (gtk-doc version, module, srcdir, buildir)
199 - content of [] on stdin or as a file
200 - get output on stdout or file
201 - and replace the macro with it
202 The changes could be made in gtkdoc-mkdb::ExpandAbbreviations()
203 === example macros ===
204 |highlight(c)[...]| - highlight source code for a specific language (c)
205 - what will this output? preformatted html to be xincluded?
206 - we could have macros for each format, the docbook xml macro would leave
207 enough traces in the html so that a html macro can continue
208 |dot(svg)[...]| - format dot graph and include result as mediaobject (in svg format)
209 |ditta(svg)[...]| - parse ascii art and include result as mediaobject (in svg format)
210 - we need to generate a filename for the image or use anoter parameter
212 === where to define macros ===
213 * system wide and with the package, <prefix>/share/gtk-doc/macros, $(srcdir)
214 * prefix for custom macros?
215 * we could require stdin for input and stdout for output, the wrapper for the
216 actual tool can ensure the convention
218 == ascii doc as a frontend ==
219 Can we offer integration with asciidoc (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/)?
220 This way the master document could be written much easier. It would be cool if
221 we could use the asciidoc markup in source-comments also.
223 == extract other bits and pieces ==
225 gtkdoc-scan could be obsoleted and gtkdoc-mkdb would build docbook fragemnts for
226 api docs and their indexes
227 === DBUs Interfaces ===
228 http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/DeviceKit.html
229 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/DeviceKit/DeviceKit/tree/doc/dbus
230 === GConf schemas ===
237 == source code examples==
238 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536928
239 We could also run a postprocessing script in gtkdoc-mkhtml/gtkdoc-fixxref
242 source-highlight (/usr/bin/source-highlight)
243 source-highlight -itests/gobject/examples/gobject.c -o$HOME/temp/gobject.html -n -t4 -sc
244 source-highlight -itests/gobject/examples/gobject.c -o$HOME/temp/gobject.html -n -t4 -sc -cstyle.css --no-doc
245 source-highlight -itests/gobject/examples/gobject.c -o$HOME/temp/gobject.xml -n -t4 -sc -f docbook
247 highlight -itests/gobject/examples/gobject.c -o$HOME/temp/gobject.xml -l -X -f -j2
249 some tips about styling code listings in html
250 http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/how_to_style_a_code_listing.asp
252 === process docbook ===
253 if we highlight to docbook, we just get emphasis (bold)
255 if we highlight to html we get colors, we need to check what tags we should process though:
256 <pre class="programlisting"> is used for all code boxes.
257 <div class="informalexample"><pre class="programlisting"> is used for examples.
259 * in html we don't know the language anymore
261 * with source-highlight, constants and types are not markedup.
262 for types we might need to build an own lang file dynamically and include
263 /usr/share/source-highlight/c.lang
264 === |[ ... ]| does not allow setting the language ===
265 * check for vi/emacs/jedit modelines
266 jedit: http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/buffer-local.html
267 vim: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Modeline_magic
268 emacs: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_486.html
269 * allow <!-- language="C" --> comments after |[
270 * we need to catch those when processing the docbook and expanding the |[
271 * require new macro syntax
275 == wildcards in symbol names ==
276 Somtimes one defines a set of function and macros with very simillar purpose, e.g.
277 READ_INT8, READ_INT16, READ_INT32. It would be great to allow documenting a symbol
278 READ_INT* instead of 3 docs which are copy'n'pasted anyway. In the output we will have
279 all matching declarations in one source listing. Multiple wildcards are okay.
282 = documentation best practises #518427 =
283 * we'd like offer a more complete skelleton
285 * docbook markup (part/chapter structure)
287 Sugested structure for api-docs.
288 Idea is to have more content that api reference. It would be good to have a
289 gnome-platform document in devhelp, so that we could xref that instead of
290 explaining 100 times how to use pkg-config.
294 * concepts / api / tools / tutorial / related tools
296 * overview / api / migation / tools
297 * qt reference docs in qt assistant
298 * classes / overview / tutorial&examples
301 * table with details (http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/bookinfo.html)
302 (problem: what enclosing tag)
304 Copyright and Legalnotice
306 * homepage, mailing lists, irc channel
307 * repository, source releases, bugtracker
309 * introduction - what is is about
310 * concepts - explain basic ideas and terminology
311 * development - how to build and run, env-vars, different platforms
312 * api - classic api docs
313 * tutorial & examples - integrated to keep it up-to-date and cross referenced
314 * migration - how to for api changes, deprecations
315 * (releated) tools - tools part of the package or recommended for development
316 * indexes - api-index, depretations, new api since xxx
318 proposed structure in docbook xml:
322 <preface><title>Introduction</title>
325 <part label="I"><title>xxx Overview</title>
326 <xi:include href="building.xml" />
329 <reference label="II"><title>xxx Core Reference</title>
330 <xi:include href="xml/gtkmain.xml" />
333 <reference label="III"><title>xxx Object Reference</title>
334 <chapter><title>Object Hierarchy</title>
335 <xi:include href="xml/tree_index.sgml" />
342 some things to check:
343 * gtk,glib: can we make a <part> for the glosary and index's (according to docbook, yes)
344 should we use <appendix>? its like a chapter.
345 * gobject: uses a <preface> for introductions
346 * gobject: uses <reference> as a parent for the xi:includeed <refentry> docs
349 = extra link for symbols =
350 need options for configure:
351 --enable-gtk-doc-codesearch-links
352 --enable-gtk-doc-liveedit-links
353 == viewvc,cgit,... ==
354 - link to some online service for the code
355 - problem: most don't have local anchors for the symbols
356 - where to set the uri (in the document, like for online url)?
357 - what about a template URL containing a %s for the "path/file" or a special macro
358 http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gtk-doc/trunk/tests/gobject/src/gobject.c?view=markup
359 http://buzztard.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/buzztard/trunk/buzztard/src/lib/core/core.c?view=markup
360 - unfortunately we can't link to symbols (only lines)
361 - linking to files is difficult as in gtkdoc we have modules
364 - google (code) link : http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=g_object_unref
366 The idea is to have an 'edit' link in an online version of the docs (build from
367 head development version) per doc-entry (symbols and section).
368 The link goes to a cgi and that gets following parameters: docmodule,symbol.
369 E.g. http://library.gnome.org/devel/references/edit?docmodule=glib&symbol=g_new
370 The cgi would need a hashmap to get from docmodule to the way to check it out
371 (ideally it has a recent checkout and only updates it).
373 - signal that this has been edited already?
374 - support for xi:included examples
375 - updating the checkout could be slow
378 = fix missing since docs =
379 cd gstreamer/gstreamer/docs/gst
380 gtkdoc-mkdb --module=gstreamer --source-dir=../../gst --outputsymbolswithoutsince
381 cd gstreamer/gstreamer/src
384 git bisect bad RELEASE-0_10_0
385 git bisect run script.sh
390 grep "gst_caps_is_always_compatible" tags
394 - timestamp each step
396 - try CFLAGS=-O0 for compiling the scanner, no need to optimize it
397 CFLAGS="-O0" make check >make.log
400 http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/latest/doc/performance.html
401 - play with xsltproc --profile --verbose --timing
402 cd tests/gobject/docs/html
403 time /usr/bin/xsltproc 2>xslt.log --profile --verbose --timing --path /home/ensonic/projects/gnome/gtk-doc/gtk-doc/tests/gobject/docs --nonet --xinclude --stringparam gtkdoc.bookname tester --stringparam gtkdoc.version 1.14 /home/ensonic/projects/gnome/gtk-doc/gtk-doc/gtk-doc.xsl ../tester-docs.xml
404 - l10n.language is slow
405 bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2918673&group_id=21935&atid=373750
406 see: http://www.mail-archive.com/docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org/msg05412.html
407 - overide l10n.language
410 2m15.221s 1m58.740s 0m1.456s
412 1m55.480s 1m44.296s 0m2.125s
413 - override many template related to gentext
415 0m43.327s 0m38.594s 0m4.724s
418 0m33.282s 0m29.266s 0m4.012s
419 - removing the gentext calls for nav-bar alt tags does not help
422 - try plain docbook xslt to see if maybe we have bad xslt templates in the
423 customisation layer (gtk-doc.xsl)
425 - we could do the xinlcude processing once and use it for both html and pdf
426 time /usr/bin/xsltproc 2>../xslt4.log --path /home/ensonic/projects/gnome/gtk-doc/gtk-doc/tests/gobject/docs --nonet --xinclude --stringparam gtkdoc.bookname tester --stringparam gtkdoc.version 1.14 /home/ensonic/projects/gnome/gtk-doc/gtk-doc/gtk-doc.xsl ../tester-docs.xml
428 0m4.846s 0m4.434s 0m0.147s
429 0m4.842s 0m4.386s 0m0.145s
432 time xmllint --nonet --xinclude ../tester-docs.xml >./tester-docs-all.xml
434 0m0.596s 0m0.546s 0m0.023s
436 time /usr/bin/xsltproc 2>../xslt5.log --path /home/ensonic/projects/gnome/gtk-doc/gtk-doc/tests/gobject/docs --nonet --stringparam gtkdoc.bookname tester --stringparam gtkdoc.version 1.14 /home/ensonic/projects/gnome/gtk-doc/gtk-doc/gtk-doc.xsl ./tester-docs-all.xml
438 0m4.167s 0m3.834s 0m0.106s
439 0m4.248s 0m3.851s 0m0.114s
442 time xmllint --nonet --c14n --xinclude ../tester-docs.xml >./tester-docs-all2.xml
445 0m0.700s 0m0.636s 0m0.034s
447 time /usr/bin/xsltproc 2>../xslt6.log --path /home/ensonic/projects/gnome/gtk-doc/gtk-doc/tests/gobject/docs --nonet --stringparam gtkdoc.bookname tester --stringparam gtkdoc.version 1.14 /home/ensonic/projects/gnome/gtk-doc/gtk-doc/gtk-doc.xsl ./tester-docs-all2.xml
450 0m3.344s 0m3.026s 0m0.109s
451 0m3.372s 0m3.037s 0m0.115s
454 l ../tester-docs.xml ./tester-docs-all*.xml
456 - we could also try to compact the installed xslt
457 xmllint --nonet --c14n --xinclude gtk-doc.xsl | sed -ne '/<!--/ { :c; /-->/! { N; b c; }; /-->/s/<!--.*-->//g }; /^ *$/!p;' | sed '/^$/d' >gtk-doc.pre.xsl
458 - unfortunately there is no way to ask xsltproc to pre-transform an xslt, that could
460 - process xsl:import and xsl:include
462 http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsltc/
463 http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=618
464 - extra xsltproc options:
465 --novalid: saves ~ 0.12 sec
468 - not really an issue, but we can improve by compiling the regexps
469 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/550258/does-the-o-modifier-for-perl-regular-expressions-still-provide-any-benefit
470 - we use $&, $', and $` in several places (comple match, pre-match and post-match).
471 Those are slow and once they are used a single time perl prepares them for every match operation.
472 Since perl 5.10 one can use the /p flag for matches where this is needed and then use
473 ${^PREMATCH} , ${^MATCH} and ${^POSTMATCH}
475 - http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/07/15/nytprof-v2-a-major-advance-in-perl-profilers/
476 perl -d:NYTProf gtkdoc-mkdb ...
478 firefox nytprof/index.html