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.