Re: [Jsdoc-user] some questions regarding jsdoc

[Gabriel R. <gab...@gm...>]

Hi,

> > a long story short: hopefully I'll release in the next day or two (or
> > maybe even in the next hour or two).      
> 
> good news! looking forward to the release, but no hurries.

As you've maybe already seen, the new version was released a couple of
days ago (I'm just a bit behind in handling e-mail....)

> > Yes, this is another one of those things that is really difficult (or
> > impossible) to get right to satisfy everyone. The far-away plan for
> > JSDoc is to rewrite it in Java using Rhino, and then just let Rhino
> > decide what's what instead of me trying to fish it out with regular
> > expressions :)  
> 
> well, we are working with java *and* rhino and as i already said we really need a good and meaningful javascript documentation feature. (certainly, a java version of jsdoc would be much more valuable for us than the perl one -- no matter how excellent it already is.) do you think we could join our forces here?

Well, there are still some issues that I'm thinking about with all of
this, not to mention the fact that putting aside enough time to really
think all of this through is proving to be a challenge in itself :(
However, in any case I'm interested in going towards a version based
around a real parser, and java/rhino certainly looks like the best way
to go. Once things do start moving in that direction, help will
certainly be appreciated!

> btw. i found some more issues; do you want me to report them as bugs immediately or is it ok if i post them here again?

Well, either is ok, although it's nice to have them actually logged in
the bug-reporting system so I don't forget about them. Actually, what's
nicest is if they're reported in the bug-reporting system AND posted in
this list, but I realize that takes more time and effort, so just do
what you've got time/energy for.


Gabriel