Re: PEAR Descriptions/More documentation

From: Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 15:39:57 +0000
Subject: Re: PEAR Descriptions/More documentation
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Quoting Martin Jansen <mail@martin-jansen.de>: > The API documentation is intended for developers, but not for end users > of the classes. What would you say, if > http://www.php.net/manual/ would > be PHP's API documentation :-)? The end-users of classes usually _are_ developers. PHP's API documentation is useful to those using PHP's API to write php functions... The API documentation of a class is useful to people using that class to build systems. I.e., end users. Now, of course there are cases where you want more documentation. But I think it's a mistake not to include the api docs somewhere very prominent. I've found that Sun's API docs (javadoc) are usually _far_ more useful than the other docs they post with their frameworks. -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> "What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we ever have is here, now." - Ursula K. Le Guin

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