Interest in refactoring/replacing FORD parser

That is something I’ve thought about and agree would be worth doing. Frankly, I should probably have limited FORD to being a Sphinx plugin from the start, but too late now.

That task is outside the scope of the work I’m currently proposing, but if the current project goes ahead I plan to have it store records of the analysis it has done on each file. At that point it might be worth thinking about whether FORD’s current HTML generation components should just become one possible target. It might be possible to refactor FORD to be more extensible, with front- and back-ends that can be mixed and matched.

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