[wp-hackers] Inline documentation

Roy Schestowitz r at schestowitz.com
Wed Feb 15 19:19:53 GMT 2006


_____/ On Wed 15 Feb 2006 18:33:15 GMT, [Doug Stewart] wrote : \_____

> Craig wrote:
>> As someone who wants to learn PHP via dissecting WordPress, I'd love to see
>> this. I think it would be worth the extra cost of file weight. Besides,
>> "bloat" is really about functionality that is better attached via plugin or
>> other means, and should never be used in conjunction with adding value to
>> code by making it easier to understand and therefore use, change, or
>> improve.
>>
>
> Hey, I've got an idea - ship two .zips, a .dev edition with full 
> comments and a .standard edition with no whitespace whatsoever.
>
> Sorry.  I'll go back to lurking.

Comment ought to be accumulated and always remain in tact in the repository.
Each time release milestone is reached, run a parser which strips all
comments and publish.

Developers can fetch documented code of interest from the SVN repository,
the nightly, or a Developer Edition. It is worth using the same tactic with
debugging bits in the code. If there are none, something in development
model is probably missed.

Roy



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