[Doxygen-develop] MacOS X doxywizard

[George V. <gy...@ma...>]

Dear All,

I would like to thank you for the Doxygen Package. I turned to be a big fan 
of it in a very short time. At my company we are using it to document a 
rather big project on Windows.

We have found some interesting behavior that I will address in separate 
mails, but I have to create small cases for them.

This letter is about a missing piece of the package. I am a long standing 
MacOS developer and as I see there is no doxywizard for MacOS X. If nobody 
is working on it I would like to write one.

My goal is to deliver a real MacOS X application that could be used the 
same way as the doxywizard on Windows with maybe some additional 
functionallity.

I know that on UNIX people are used to make, install, run things from the 
command line. On MacOS this is not the case. Apple has created a very good 
cover on the UNIX underpinnings. This allows users, even developers to not 
touch the terminal window for they whole life.
I would prefer to make such a cover for doxygen.
Some technical background:
Apple has created Bundles which are directories that look like files. In a 
bundle you can have anything: applications, multi-file documents (like a 
database, a help for something, a web site). An application bundle contains 
the application and it can contain additional things that the application 
needs. In the Doxygen case the Doxywizard.app would contain the wizard, the 
doxygen executables (doxygen, doxytag,...), the doxygen documentation. The 
installation would only require uncompressing the bundle.
A user usually would use the Doxywizard.app to do its stuff. The tools are 
still available from the command line. Naturally entering 
.../Doxywizard.app/Contents/bin/doxygen is not so easy therefore the 
application could add symlinks to a user selected directory.
I would also prefer to add an extension to the Doxyfile. This way the 
system could bind the extension to the wizard. This could be also a Good 
Thing for Windows.

Please let me know if anybody else is already doing this kind of work.

Thank you
George Varga