[Lazarus] [patch] ModalResult documentation update

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 12:49:46 CEST 2009


2009/4/28, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> Compare these for example...
>
>  http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/
>   vs
>  http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/
>
>
>  Which one is newer?  fpdoc now supports a command line parameter
>  (--footer-date='yyyy-mm-dd') which allows the date the documentation
>  was generated on to be added to the footer. I would suggest this be
>  used for RTL, FCL and LCL documentation. This clearly indicates to the
>  user how old or new the documentation is.  I noticed that RTL and FCL
>  documentation hosted on www.freepascal.org already uses this.
>

I am hesitant to do that. Documentation on sourceforge is generated
nighlty and rsynced with the files on SourceForge. It is a bit silly
to update these files daily because the datestamp changed.

For local (off line) docs it is a good idea.

Vincent



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