[Nova-developer] Documentation for libnova

[Mike M. <ii...@gm...>]

Hello.

Is this an appropriate place to discuss libnova?  There doesn't seem
to be an obvious mailing list or forum attached to it that I can find,
and the project seems quite strongly connected to this one.  If
there's a better place, please accept my apologies (and let me know).

I was wondering if there's presently a documentation effort for
libnova, besides the Doxygen comments.  I'm quite keen to attempt to
familiarise myself with the code and write some kind of getting
started guide to explain, in some kind of logical sequence, what
people need to do to use the library effectively.

I've been working on my own ephemeris library for a few months,
primarily as an effort to learn more about ephemeris in general.  I
forked my own code from the Astrolabe project that was released ages
ago by Bill McClain, but I've also been reading up in several books
(including Meeus) to help understand what's going on.  I launced my
own code as a GPL'd project a little while ago, but it's very
incomplete and somewhat buggy, and my main motivation was that I
wasn't aware of anyone else doing the same thing under GPL.  Having
discovered libnova a few weeks ago, I've been wondering if it'd make
more sense to try to get involved somehow in what you're doing here
instead.

I haven't thought this whole documentation thing through in detail,
but it's something I'd like to try in my spare time (which I'll
hopefully find) if it would fit the project.

Any thoughts?


Thanks.
Mike.