[Development] RFC: The Future of QDoc

[marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com]

On 09/02/2012 10:16, ext Hugo Parente Lima wrote:
> On Thursday 09 February 2012 14:30:20 Matt Williams wrote:
>> On 9 February 2012 14:15, Keno Fischer<kenof at stanford.edu>  wrote:
>>>> Implement a new C++ parser
>>>
>>> Any plans on using Clang a parser? The wiki page mentioned Qt
>>> Creator's AST, but it seems like Qt Creator will be moving away
>>> from its own implementation in the future, so I think that might
>>> be something to consider. Also, since the necessary work on Clang
>>> is being done for Qt Creator anyway (I'm thinking of things like
>>> signals/slots) it might be worth to keep qdoc in mind when
>>> working on Clang for Qt Creator. Any thoughts?
>>
>> There's also the KDevelop C++ parser. It already supports many
>> C++11 features and run very fast. As far as I'm aware it doesn't
>> depends on any KDE libraries (Qt only) and already has the ability
>> to extract Doxygen-style comments. I don't know if there are any
>> KDevelop people on this list who can comment further?
>
> The KDevelop parser is based on a version of Roberto's parser, last
> time I checked the sources it used few KDE utility classes like some
> smart pointers, but I see no difference in using the KDevelop or
> QtCreator parser as both are more or less the same.

QtCreators parser is a much later version of Roberto's parser, and I 
expect that it parses much faster than the KDevelop one. I'm sure 
QtCreators parser can be upgraded to also handle those new C++11 
features, and since we need to maintain it in Creator anyways, I don't 
see why it should use another parser than a one we already have intimate 
knowledge about?


> I nice ability QDoc would have is to support other output formats
> like XML or JSON, the old QDoc had this feature but it was deprecated
> and not documented at all.
>
> The PySide documentation is generated using the XML output of qdoc3,
> but the current version of qdoc3 doesn't support XML output anymore.

Oops. Casper, Martin any details about this, and why XML output was 
dropped? Hugo, any reason why PySide cannot use the normal output? 
Integration with other help tools?

-- 
.marius