[Doxygen-develop] Patch for Ruby parsing

[Vincent F. <vin...@9o...>]

  Hello dear doxygen users (and developers) !

  I'm a fervent doxygen user, but until recently I found that it was
missing something for me: support for parsing Ruby files. So I spent
some time dwelling in the internals of Doxygen, I'm probably far from
actually understanding anything at all, but I've implemented something
that works.

  If there are Ruby users around, I'd be grateful if you could try it
out and flame me because it doesn't work for your code...

  Patches are available at

http://www.normalesup.org/~fourmond/doxygen-ruby/

  Get the latest one (for now -1.patch.gz) and follow the instructions
(you need to be able build doxygen from source).

  My hope is that this patch will receive sufficient testing to be good
enough to make it into the official distribution.

  Side notes: I've tried to keep the compatibility with the main tool
used for documenting Ruby code, rdoc. This makes doxygen behave
more-or-less like rdoc does, but not like doxygen does on, say C++ code.
This can be disable by setting the RUBY_RDOC_COMPATIBILITY configuration
variable to false.

  Cheers, and happy testing !

	Vincent

PS: please don't CC me, I'm subscribed to both lists.

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Vincent Fourmond, Doctor in Physics
http://vince-debian.blogspot.com/