[Doxygen-users] modularization of Doxygen language processing

[Clayton <cla...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

We are evaluating Doxygen as a possible engine for large-scale analysis
of GitHub projects, and as such, are interested in analyzing languages
in addition to the list of languages that core Doxygen currently
processes. We are aware of Doxygen's ability to pull in separate
language-specific "plugin" scripts via the FILTER_PATTERNS setting, but
are thinking of something more tightly integrated into doxygen. (Many
of these scripts are very slow, for instance....)

I ran across this in the Doxygen documention:

	http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/arch.html

	"Possible improvements for future versions: Use one
	scanner/parser per language instead of one big scanner."

Has any thought / analysis / work gone into this? Is it perceived as a
huge task, or just something no one has gotten around to yet?

TIA for your thoughts,
Clayton