Re: [PHP-GTK-DOC] Re: Helping Document PHP-GTK

[email protected] (Mark Skilbeck) Tue, 25 May 2010 21:58:30 +0100
Newsgroups php.gtk.doc
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On 24/03/10 19:34, Paul Lashbrook wrote:
> |    php-gtk currently uses a rather proprietary format of docbook - with
> it's own dtd extension and some stylesheets that make my head hurt that are
> run
> |    through xsltproc in order to generate the actual html.
> |
> |    This is not fun.
>
>
> Yeah im not sure i like the sound of that! my head hurts enough as it is =)
>
> so... the ideal would be what i would go for, when the last few peeps
> started to convert the docs was it on svn? or has someone got a copy i can
> take off from?
>
> im thinking about starting a google code project so its under svn and open
> to more people to help... what do you think?
>
> |   HURRAY (excuse the excess enthusiasm - docs are a thankless and frankly
> slightly boring thing)
>
> its a shame that its the thing that makes or breaks a project... if it
> wasn't for php's online manual i would of quit as a n00b, would be great to
> have that standard for php-gtk... might help to get more people using
> php-gtk which would do everyone's career options wonders!
>
>
> has anyone heard about HipHop for php? its a php 2 C++ transformer and
> compiles it with g++
> url: http://developers.facebook.com/hiphop-php/
>
> would be interesting to see if you could compile a php-gtk app with it
>
> chears
>
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> On 24 March 2010 17:54, Elizabeth M Smith<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> docbook 5
>

Definitely an interesting project. Head to #php-gtk and we could discuss 
the migration. The only thing holding me back from writing documentation 
for PHP-GTK is the headache it entails. :)

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Mark Skilbeck
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