Documentation - Reference to MSDN?

[James McKenzie]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> On 06/30/2010 09:22 AM, Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote:
>   
>> 1) Would including the URL of the MSDN article be useful/a good idea?
>>     
> No. Microsoft in all these years haven't figured out how to create permanent
> links. All, and I really mean it _ALL_ URLS on MSDN had changed at least
> once a year.
>
>   
They have learned well from IBM.  I have links that I use at work that 
change on an almost weekly basis.
>> 2) Would enumerating coded values and flags be allowed?
>>     
> That's what headers are for.
>
>   
Correct.  However, if a flag is used in more than one place, it would be 
'nice' to annotate that the flag/enumeration does exist.  Saves 
embarrassing and unnecessary patch submissions....

>> 3) Where should data structures be documented?
>>     
> On MSDN. Wine is an implementation of API not the spec.
>   
I agree.  The functions and their calls/results are what we are 
interested in.  We don't care how M$ got there, we are on a different path.

James McKenzie