A new attempt to make doxygen read Tcl

I have been using tcl-dox for a while. It is a nice programme to make doxygen produce documentations for tcl programmes. Tcl-dox is a flex generated scanner. A sophisticated one, of course.

Last year the author of tcl-dox has abandoned the flex approach because of it being error prone and difficult to maintain. Well, as I also developed some enhancements for my own scripts I can confirm this. Anyway, thank you Greg for starting out with tcl-dox and making it a rather useful tool.

As for me, I am not willing to give up the generator approach for the moment. I have used fickle and taccle in the past. They are the tcl counterparts of lex and yacc. So what would be more obvious than a tcl only approach? Now, the Tclers can write their doxygen input filter in Tcl!

Tcl2doxy is a new start from scratch. I tried to set up a frame work first which is easy to maintain and develop. Therefore the current code is far from the capabilities of tcl-dox. However, it can document itself nicely. Freewrap produces the binaries.

W T Schueller, January 2010