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Find a way to unify documentation
Currently the cmkr
executable has it's own hardcoded documentation built-in. It would be best if there could be a single source of documentation that is somehow generated into the project to decrease the maintenance burden.
Maybe we should use Doxygen as an alternative to the old documentation I've made?
I'll analyze the complexity of applying it for the current project state
I've found this if you find this a good alternative and is less harder to maintain in the long run
https://github.com/matusnovak/doxybook2
I don’t think Doxygen will help because it focuses mostly on code-level documentation and this is a more high-level type of documentation that has nothing to do with the code.
I’m still thinking about a design to make the whole toml parsing a declarative system where metadata can then be applied, but honestly it’s not so bad.
For the command line argparse is a small library with a decent help generator so that would solve that need.
I'll check out some other ideas but wrapping our current argument parsing method using some class to generate this info can be a good
Like creating a pattern like this
class CliArgument {
private:
const char* tag;
const char* description;
public:
CliArgument(const char* _tag, const char* _desc): tag(_tag), description(_desc) {}
const char* getTag() { return tag; }
const char* getDescription() { return description; }
}
CliArgument outputArg { "--output", "File output" };
void ShowHelp() {
// render all CliArgument tag + description here
}
This can works I think let me know your opinion about it
** This is really abstract idea, so don't think this as a final stuff just a concept
For the argument parsing this library is probably pretty good: https://github.com/Taywee/args#simple-example
Combined with a little cmake to automatically generate the documentation it’s enough for the command line part at least.