[development] Drupal 4.6 API documentation

Victor Kane victorkane at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 08:46:16 UTC 2011


One thing you could do would be to use an IDE (Eclipse, NetBeans, Komodo)
that supports "mouse hovering" or autocomplete "balloon" documentation of
functions, once it has digested a complete Drupal 4.7 site.

Victor

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Buzai Andras <buzai.andras at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, I second that.
> It would be nice to have a place on *.drupal.org. for the old API's.
>
> Buzai
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Andrew Berry <andrewberry at sentex.net>
> wrote:
> > On 27/01/2011 5:48 PM, Jennifer Hodgdon wrote:
> >>
> >> Just to clarify, all of the API documentation for any Drupal release is
> >> contained in in-code comments, so if you download Drupal 4.6 (or get it
> from
> >> CVS), you will have all of the API documentation along with it.
> >
> > It looks like the 4.7 API is also gone from api.drupal.org.
> >
> > I'm not familiar with the exact rationale behind removing the old
> > documentation, but I previously found it handy to be able to go back to
> > unsupported releases to learn about the history and the changes in
> current
> > functions. While I can understand removing old releases to hammer in that
> > they aren't supported, it would still be useful to have old release API
> > documentation existing somewhere on *.drupal.org for historical and
> > educational purposes.
> >
> > Perhaps we could have a static HTML version of the old APIs posted
> > somewhere?
> >
> > --Andrew
> >
>
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