RE: [Doxygen-users] MSDN Style

[Prikryl,Petr <PRI...@sk...>]

Hi,

Dimitri wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:25:21AM -0500, Christian Ratliff wrote:
> > [...]
> >   Has the MSDN style been merged into the code base in CVS yet? We use
that
> > style for all of our auto-generated documentation now, but I would
prefer to
> > move to a more recent release than 1.2.6. I have been monitoring the
recent
> > change logs, but perhaps I overlooked its mention.
> 
> I'm still investigating the impact of Alexandr Chelpanov's patch. 
> It is quite huge, still has rough edges, and introduces a lot of
conditional 
> code (mostly only for html, and even some IE specific stuff), so from a 
> test/maintenance point of view I am not overly enthousiastic yet.

In my opinion, MSDN Style will always be IE specific, and 
it will probably be focused mainly on HTML.  If MSDN Style 
were to be merged into the official doxygen, wouldn't
it be easier to introduce it via another, MSDN-specific 
HTML-generator?  I think that this way it could be separated
from the rest of doxygen, and it could possibly be conditionally 
excluded during compilation for the environment where MSDN Style
does not make sense.  

Microsoft likes to make changes and it does not like to follow
standards, sometimes.  Too tight integration of MSDN Style 
could spoil the doxygen core later.

Regards,
  Petr


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