[PATCH 0/3] Xserver internals doc patches

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri May 14 16:54:32 PDT 2010


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> The recent flurry of ABI changing cleanups reminded me that I've been
> meaning for a while to finish the move of the X DDX porting doc which
> documents many of those functions from the xorg-docs module to xserver,
> so it can be kept in sync with the code it's documenting.
>
> Unfortunately, the xorg-macros definitions for the DocBook XML rules it
> uses conflict with the xorg-macros LinuxDoc rules, so first I had to
> convert the existing LinuxDoc documents in the xserver tree to DocBook.
>
> Due to the extreme size of these patches (over 1Mb), I've posted the first
> two at:
>        http://people.freedesktop.org/~alanc/Xserver-docs/
>
> I've also posted there the current resulting DocBook/XML files and the
> HTML & Text conversions of those built after applying these patches.

How sad. I wasted like two weeks of my life doing the same conversion,
but hadn't finished the cleanup to post the patches. DESIGN.sgml ->
DESIGN.xml was a total beast. Oh well. At least there's someone else
familiar with the source now that can check it. :)

--
Dan


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