Re: GSoC proposal: NetBSD Kernel Documentation Management Toolchain

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 01:49:28AM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> 
> What's the point of XML in the first place, then?  If the goal's to
> generate documentation a la doxygen (question 2: why don't you just
> use doxygen, which also has support for extracting code
> structures?), why don't you just push it straight out into mdoc?

As regards doxygen:  ow.  Have you ever actually tried to run a
nontrivial part of the NetBSD tree through doxygen?  It does not
actually understand C well enough to deal with very common things in
our tree such as the queue.h macros.