[M3devel] "types" directory confusion

[Jay K]

To be clear -- this was in libm3 and Tony moved it all to m3core and I trust that he had a good reason.
I think he did it along with the introduction of LONGINT.
 
 - Jay

 
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:29:48 +0200
> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
> To: rodney.m.bates at acm.org
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] "types" directory confusion
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:32:01 -0500
> "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney_bates at lcwb.coop> wrote:
> 
> > The documentation is wrong about the location of the type-describing interfaces
> > for instantiating generics, and they are inconsistent and incomplete in their
> > locations.
> > 
> > For example, the page cm3/doc/help/gen_html/libm3/src/types/Refany.i3.html claims
> > to describe an interface located in cm3/m3-libs/libm3/src/types, but this file is
> > actually located in cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/types.  Of these kinds of interfaces,
> > only RealType.i3 and LongrealType.i3 are in libm3.  Most/all of the rest are in
> > m3core.  I don't see an ExtendedType.i3 at all.
> > 
> > (There are a bunch of interfaces concerning floating types, including Extended, but
> > they contain different information.  None appear to be for instantiating e.g, Table.)
> > 
> > Do we want to consistify this?  I seem to remember that there once were copies
> > of at least some of these in both m3core/src/types and libm3/src/types.
> > 
> > Also, does anybody know what the procedure is for regenerating the html
> > documentation files?
> 
> With the latter I may be of help. Let's see...
> 
> In ~/work/cm3/scripts/make-doc-dist.sh there's the following snippet:
> 
> if [ "$1" = "-gen" ] ; then
>   cd "${ROOT}/doc/help/gen_html" || exit 1
>   rm -f html_gen/m3db 
>   m3tohtml -v -root /usr/local/cm3/pkg `cd /usr/local/cm3/pkg && ls -d *`
> fi
> 
> That should do it, I think.
> 
> Olaf
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