- Do not refer to people’s expectation, they can wildly differ.
- Do not link to `strcompress`, that confusingly does not support `\a`. Link Wikipedia instead.
- Reiterate the C escape sequences from string section, they are not that many.
- Mention escaping newline and other characters (also copied from string section).
- Mention Unicode escapes not being supported to contrast with strings.
Fedora 37 is out of support so, as per our policy, update the CI image
to the oldest still-supported release, which is 39.
Update the mingw CI image too, as it’s built on top of the Fedora one.
Update the supported platforms documentation (and fix the Debian version
listed there to match what’s currently in CI, which is up to date).
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
548ec9f186 accidentally moved the GVariant
spec to the toplevel /usr/share/doc directory, which is surely not
right. Let's move it back into the glib-2.0 subdirectory.
It's debatable whether this is the best place to install the GVariant
specification, since it's not part of the gi-docgen docs, but surely
it's much better than not putting it in any subdirectory.
Fixes#3351
The source language of GLib is technically en-US, so we should
consistently use en-US spellings.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3269
The `gi-docgen` tool is not designed to be used like that. In
particular, when nesting documentation directories, the generated
`*.devhelp2` files (needed by Devhelp to show the documentation) are
nested one directory level too deep for Devhelp to find them, and hence
are useless, and the documentation doesn’t show up in this common
documentation viewer.
So, change the installed documentation directory hierarchy:
* `${PREFIX}/share/doc/glib-2.0/gio` → `${PREFIX}/share/doc/gio-2.0`
* `${PREFIX}/share/doc/glib-2.0/glib-unix` →
`${PREFIX}/share/doc/glib-unix-2.0`
* `${PREFIX}/share/doc/glib-2.0/gobject` →
`${PREFIX}/share/doc/gobject-2.0`
* etc.
* `${PREFIX}/share/doc/glib-2.0/glib` → `${PREFIX}/share/doc/glib-2.0`
This is going to seem like pointless churn (the contents of the
documentation have not changed), and packagers may mourn the split of
content in `/usr/share/doc` from `/usr/share/doc/${package_name}` to
`/usr/share/doc/${pkg_config_id}` instead, but that seems to be the best
approach to fix this issue in GLib. gi-docgen’s behaviour does feel
fairly consistent and correct with the rest of how it works (single
output directory).
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Fixes: #3287
This is nowhere near a complete check-through and gi-docgenification of
the signals docs, just a few bits I was looking at anyway.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3250
We install gvariant-specification-1.0.html to `docs_dir` but that shouldn't require `enable_gir`.
Fixes: docs/reference/glib/meson.build:26:16: ERROR: Unknown variable "docs_dir"
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3955>
gi-compile-repository --module and gi-decompile-typelib --shlib are
intentionally undocumented here: they will be removed in !3926.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
The current output (more or less a straight copy of the wiki) is available
here:
https://gi.readthedocs.io
This contains two changes:
* Converts all (not completely outdated) wiki pages to a sphinx based
documentation.
* Converts the man pages to reST and adds a Makefile for building them
using rst2man. So they can be easily exposed in the sphinx docs.
Goals:
* Have a user focused/compact documentation instead of random wiki pages
with various todo/ideas pages.
* Take advantage of the gitlab MR workflow by
* allowing large documentation changes/refactorings with reviews
* allowing to combine features changes with documentation changes in MRs
The "--code" option was removed years ago in ac81f3e8c5f1c380d16677232d67466e739da283
so remove references to it from README and g-ir-compiler(1)
Remove the "--no-init" option from g-ir-compiler and g-ir-compiler(1)
as it was documented to "can only be used if --code is also specified",
so no reason to keep it around.
