Re: [libreoffice-projects] minutes of ESC call ...

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> On 20 Feb 2016, at 09:00, Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > + Doxygen API generation ? (Bjoern)
> >        + done by Miklos just now - would like to hand it to sysadmin
> >            + assuming it will get run regularly.
> >            + http://docs.libreoffice.org/
> >            + some multi-GB doxygen output - lots of images.
>
> Just a quick comment: I made an update to the doxygen config file to generate SVGs, and also now 
> use a doxygen controlled scroll and zoom UI. 
>
> I don't think that has increased file sizes.
>
> However, with the way things work currently what I have noticed is actually the thing that is 
> using most space are the tag files. I don't quite know how to do things much better (have 
> experimented a bit) but the script currently generates tag files and html for each module, then 
> as each module is built it references the previously generated tag files for the previous 
> modules. After the clew module is built I noticed that we start getting massive tag files, over 
> 450MB of text.
>
> I was thinking maybe there might be a way of reworking the script to generate a tag file for each 
> module first, then do another pass that generates the html from the tag files.
>
> I don't know if this is feasible: I'm no doxygen expert unfortunately. I got this idea from a 
> comment from the doxygen creator though, which detailed on Stack Overflow:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8247189/doxygen-is-slow/8247993#8247993

That sounds like an easyHack.

rgds
jan i.

> Chris
>
> P.S. There seems to be some issue in doxygen preventing it from matching function declarations 
> and definitions due to it not picking up correct namespaces, in VCL I fixed this by ensuring that 
> we use the css namespace alias, but this is not appropriate for other modules.
>
> Was going to try to make a reduced test case, but found it hard to reproduce. I wonder if we 
> should reach out to the doxygen guys?
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