Currently LLDB uses epydoc to generate the Python API reference for the website.
epydoc however is unmaintained since more than a decade and no longer works with
Python 3. Also whatever setup we had once for generating the documentation on
the website server no longer seems to work, so the current website documentation
has been stale since more than a year.
This patch replaces epydoc with sphinx and its automodapi plugin that can
generate Python API references. LLVM already uses sphinx for the rest of the
documentation, so this way we are more consistent with the rest of LLVM. The
only new dependency is the automodapi plugin for sphinx.
This patch effectively does the following things:
* Remove the epydoc code.
* Make a new dummy Python API page in our website that just calls the Sphinx
command for generated the API documentation.
* Add a mock _lldb module that is only used when generating the Python API.
This way we don't have to build all of LLDB to generate the API reference.
Some notes:
* The long list of skips is necessary due to boilerplate functions that SWIG
is generating. Sadly automodapi is not really scriptable from what I can see,
so we have to blacklist this stuff manually.
* The .gitignore change because automodapi wants a subfolder of our
documentation directory to place generated documentation files there. The path
is also what is used on the website, so we can't really workaround this
(without copying the whole `docs` dir somewhere else when we build).
* We have to use environment variables to pass our build path to our sphinx
configuration. Sphinx doesn't support passing variables onto that script.
Reviewed By: JDevlieghere
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94489
This enables support for writing LLDB documentation in markdown in
addition to reStructured text. We already had documentation written in
markdown (StructuredDataPlugins and DarwinLog) which will now also be
available on the website.
This patch replaces the existing out-of-date man page for lldb and
replaces it with an RST file from which sphinx generates the actual
troff file. This is similar to how man pages are generated for the rest
of the LLVM utilities.
The man page is generated by building the `docs-lldb-man` target.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70514
This returns the look & feel of the Sphinx-generated LLDB website to
the original pre-Sphinx layout.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61913
llvm-svn: 360819
The current LLDB website is written in HTML which is hard to maintain.
We have quite a bit of HTML code checked in which can make it hard to
differentiate between documentation written by us and documentation
generated by a tool.
In line with the other LLVM projects, I propose generating the
documentation with Sphix. I think text/rst files provide a lower barrier
for new or casual contributors to fix or update.
This patch adds a copy of the LLDB website and documentation in
reStructuredText. It also adds a new ninja target `docs-lldb-html` when
-DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX:BOOL is enabled.
This is the first step in having the website and documentation being
generated from the repository, rather than having the output checked-in
under the www folder. During the hopefully short transition period,
please also update the reStructuredText files when modifying the
website.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55376
llvm-svn: 352644
