GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 341527
API documentation and inline documentation
Last modified: 2012-12-17 11:30:57 UTC
It's about time we satisfy all python devs who want to use gst-python out there with good pythonic documentation. Two things needed: _A/ inline documentation (pydoc gst). The reason we don't do that, is because it would increase the memory usage when loading gstpython. All the same, we should look into it. The new pygtk codegenerator allows to inline documentation in the .defs. _B/ pygtk-like html documentation (see http://pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/index.html). Some work was already started here : http://pygstdocs.berlios.de/ We should look into using both the codegenerator and the gstreamer/docs/gst/*.xml to help use generate that.
This is related to bug 100309 There's a beginning of such a tool: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-python/pygtk/codegen/docgen.py?view=markup
Add me to list of those willing to help
Can I be cheeky and revive this bug? Having easily accessible docs is actually quite important to the whole "rapid application development" aspect of python.
Closing this bug now, gst-python is only an extension module to pygi now and this bug doesn't make much sense anymore in this context.