[Mono-docs-list] Mono basic docs from ECMA

Amrein-Marie Christophe camreinmarie at free.fr
Sun Apr 5 04:37:25 EDT 2009


Le samedi 04 avril 2009 à 21:11 -0400, Jonathan Pryor a écrit :
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 18:39 +0200, Amrein-Marie Christophe wrote:
> > I hope that nobody has already asked this question:
> > 
> > Why not merge Mono documentation with original documentation from ECMA
> > CLILibraryTypes.xml file?
> > 
> > www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-335.zip
> 
> Been there, done that, wrote the XML import support for mdoc-update:
> 
> http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?tlink=10@man%3amdoc-update(1)
> 
> 	-i, --import=FILE
> 
> 	Import documentation found within FILE.
> 
> 	FILE may contain either csc /doc XML or ECMA-335 XML.
> 
> The problem is, ECMA-335 doesn't contain documentation for very many
> types -- only 331 types and 3797 members.  This sounds like a lot, until
> you realize that mscorlib.dll has 1283 public types containing 2464
> members, and System.Xml (also partially documented in ECMA-335) has 258
> types with 4952 members, so the documentation included in ECMA-335 is
> really just a drop in the proverbial bucket.
> 
>  - Jon
> 

A big part of that ECMA documentation is still not into monodoc



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