Re: [Libevent-users] The libevent-2.0.13-stable man pages

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/10/2011 11:54 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It appears all the man pages that were under
>> doxygen/man/man3/ have disappeared in 2.0.13 tarball.
>> So how are man pages generated these days?
> 
> Hi, Steve!
> 
> It took me a while to figure out what you meant, since as far as I can
> tell none of the recent 2.0.x series ship with manpages.  I think you
> mean that "make doxygen" no longer generates manpages?
Yes... 

> 
> It looks like when I replaced the Doxyfile with a modern version to
> make HTML and PDF documentation that wouldn't suck, I wound up
> disabling manpage generation.  If you actually _liked_ the manpages
> that doxygen was making, for now you can just edit the Doxyfile to
> change the GENERATE_MAN option to YES.
This was noticed, so I just turned them back on... 

> 
> (I'm not sure I'd want to make that on-by-default, or call the doxygen
> manpages an official set of manpages, without some more actual work to
> make them into, well, real manpages.  As they stand right now, it
> looks like doxygen generates one oddly named and weirdly formatted
> manpage per header file, and a zillion little ".so mainfile.3" files,
> one for each function.  That's not what manpages are supposed to look
> like.)
So are you saying since the man pages are the state that they are, they
should no longer used in distros?

steved.

> 
> (For a minute, I thought you were talking about the actual manpages we
> used to ship in the tarball.  We stopped shipping those around
> 2.0.5-alpha since they had grown so hideously out-of-date. If anybody
> wants to rewrite them to reflect the actual APIs as they stand today,
> that would be nifty.)
> 
> For general documentation info, there are IMO two good places for
> documentation about Libevent right now. You can look in the doxygen
> comments in the header files; I keep a formatted version automatically
> updated from the 2.0 branch here:
>    http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-2.0/doxygen/html/index.html
> though that might move in the future.  There's also a partial reference here:
>    http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/
> 
> If anybody can put in the work to make the manpages that good too, or
> to figure out how to generate good manpages out of one of the sources
> above, that would be great.
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