[vtk-developers] Strange problem with doxygen script

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:53 PM, David Doria
<daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com<daviddoria%2Bvtk at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com<daviddoria%2Bvtk at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> > <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> >> On Monday 14 December 2009 21:16:39 David Doria wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> >>> >
> >>> > I will see what the response from the author is. If anyone has any
> >>> > further ideas please let me know. It would be good to document how
> the
> >>> > scripts are supposed to work. If there any plan to ever just run the
> >>> > header converter on the headers one day and do a very big commit so
> that
> >>> > this Perl step is not necessary?
> >>> >
> >>> I don't know if you were auto-notified of this, but someone responded
> >>> that the bug was previously reported:
> >>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593040
> >>>
> >>> It's discouraging that it is 4 months old! :(
> >>>
> >> Don't be discouraged - I did what any open source developer would do in
> this
> >> situation...I used the *SOURCE* ;-) I have emailed Dimitri (the Doxygen
> >> author), and he seems receptive to fixing this. I have a preliminary
> patch I
> >> came up with on Saturday, once I find a spare hour I will clean up the
> patch,
> >> do a little more testing and attach the patch to the bug.
> >>
> > Excellent! Glad to hear it. I think this will really be a huge
> improvement.
> >
> > No problem if the examples break temporarily - once we get them
> > cleaned up and moved into the CVS we'll be alerted when they no longer
> > match the new interface. At that point we can fix them.
> >
> Just to share the resolution - Marcus worked with the Doxygen
> developers to resolve this bug. The VTK docs look much better now :)
>

Thank Dimitri too, Doxygen 1.6.2 was released before the new year and fixes
the issue we were hitting. This is the way open source is supposed to work!

Marcus
-- 
Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
(518) 881-4937
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