[ndoc-devel] about my latest CVS commit

[Donald K. <dka...@ya...>]

In preparation for using an unloadable AppDomain to do the documentation
build, rather than a thread, I've reversed the relationship between
IDocumenter and IDocumenterConfig. 

 

Up until now, as soon as the GUI was loaded all of the IDocumenters were
also loaded, and A LOT of the memory that each consumed as builds were done,
was not released.

 

Now only the much less memory intensive IDocumenterConfig classes (and a new
IDocumenterInfo helper type) are loaded by the GUI and when a build is done,
the IDocumenter is created and then discarded. This should result in some
immediate memory gains, as the documenter will now be eligible for garbage
collection after the build is complete, rather than hanging around, attached
to the UI.

 

The next step is to create the IDocumenter in a separate AppDomain so that
it can be unloaded completely, along with the assemblies that are being
documented.

 

In the meantime, please let me know of any bugs or unexpected errors that
you notice in the dev branch. There were a lot of different places that I
touched for this change and even though I'm pretty sure I got it pretty well
debugged, you never know.

 

Cheers,

 

don