Re: [jdee-devel] Suggestions for replacement of legacy revision documentation

[Paul L. <la...@ma...>]

I've thought about it but I agree it would be a lot of effort without
a lot of return on our time investment.

Thanks David.


David Boon writes:
 > Maven builds support both of those goals.  I'd take a look at
 > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changelog-plugin/
 > 
 > And:
 > http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-site.html
 > 
 > 
 > You'd have to convert to maven, I imagine that would involve removing  
 > a lot the existing ant build.xml.  Maybe more than you want take on.
 > 
 > -Dave
 > 
 > On Aug 2, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Paul Landes <la...@ma...> wrote:
 > 
 > > Currently the revision documentation is nested in the emacs comments
 > > at the ends of each Emacs Lisp source code file.  I'd like to remove
 > > these comments and move them to an XML file or some such thing.  Then
 > > in the Ant build could use an XSLT transform to create an HTML
 > > document that folds into the standard documentation for the site.
 > > This last part (a site documentation generation) is a more long term
 > > goal.
 > >
 > > So the way I see it, we'd have two parts:
 > >
 > > - Add the Emacs Lisp to some data format file that's easy to parse in
 > >  either Java or Emacs land (XML or Emacs symbol expressions).
 > >
 > > - Integrate subversion commit comments to add to the legacy comments
 > >  to create the cumulative revision history in human readable format.
 > >
 > > I'm sure this is a problem that has been solved many times.
 > >
 > > Thanks all.
 > >
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