sphinxcontrib.cldomain

Cldomain is a command line utility, used by sphinxcontrib.cldomain extension to generate beautiful documentation for Common Lisp programms. It extracts documentation strings from Lisp systems and put them into a JSON file.

Reasoning

Most Lisp system's documentatin sucks. Sphinx_ is a very good and stable tool, used for documenting many software libraries. Though originall Sphinx_ was written to document Python libraries, it is easily extendable to write any kind of documents. Based on reStructured text markup, sphinx based documentation is very readable and it is easy to use internal hyperlinks between different documents and code.

Usage

Install cldomain using roswell:

ros install 40ants/cldomain

How to build documentation

To build documentation, you need a Sphinx. It is documentaion building tool written in Python.

To install it, you need a virtualenv. Read this instructions how to install it.

Also, you'll need a cl-launch. It is used by documentation tool to run a script which extracts documentation strings from lisp systems.

Run these commands to build documentation:

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
invoke build_docs

These commands will create a virtual environment and install some python libraries there. Command invoke build_docs will build documentation and upload it to the GitHub, by replacing the content of the gh-pages branch.