Documentation¶
This documentation is generated using Sphinx and Doxygen The two softwares are bridged by means of the Breathe extension The online version of this documentation is built and served by Read The Docs. The webpage http://pcmsolver.readthedocs.org/ is updated on each push to the public GitHub repository.
How and what to document¶
Doxygen enables documenting the code in the source code files thus removing a
“barrier” for developers. To avoid that the code degenerates into a Big Ball
of Mud, it is mandatory to document directly within the source code classes and
functions. To document general programming principles, design choices,
maintenance etc. you can create a .rst file in the doc
directory. Remember
to refer the new file inside the index.rst
file (it won’t be parsed
otherwise). Sphing uses reStructuredText and Markdown. Support for Markdown is not
as extensive as for reStructuredText, see these comments Follow the guidelines
in [WAB+14] regarding what to document.
How does this work?¶
To have an offline version of the documentation just issue make doc
in the
build directory. The HTML will be stored in doc/html
. Open the
doc/html/index.html
file with your browser to see and browse the
documentation.
Warning
Building the documentation requires Doxygen, Sphinx, Perl and the Python modules PyYAML, Breathe and Matplotlib.