Milestone/release 0.5

.gitignore

@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ dist/*
 doc/source/examples/.ipynb_checkpoints/*
 **.asv
 *.orig
+/doc/source/_autosummary/*

README.md

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The data acquisition backend for AlazarTech cards needs a package that unfortuna
 The optional script *tests/utils/syntax_check.py* invokes pyflakes to perform a static code analysis, so pyflakes should be installed if its usage is intended.
 
 ## Documentation
-You can find documentation on how to use this library on [readthedocs](https://qupulse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and [IPython notebooks with examples in this repo](doc/source/examples)
+You can find documentation on how to use this library on [readthedocs](https://qupulse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and [IPython notebooks with examples in this repo](doc/source/examples). You can build it locally with `python setup.py build_sphinx`.
 
 ## Folder Structure
 The repository primarily consists of the folders `qupulse` (toolkit core code) and `tests` (toolkit core tests). Additional parts of the project reside in `MATLAB` (MATLAB interface) and `doc` (configuration and source files to build documentation)  

ReleaseNotes.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
    - Improve `TimeType` consistency by leveraging str(float) for rounding by default.
    - Add support for sympy==1.5
    - Add volatile parameters. Repetition counts can now be changed at runtime in some cases (useful for DNP). See
-     `volatile` kwarg of `creat_program`
+     `volatile` kwarg of `create_program`
 
  - Hardware:
    - Add a `measure_program` method to the DAC interface. This method is used by the QCoDeS integration.

doc/Makefile

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-# Makefile for Sphinx documentation
+# Minimal makefile for Sphinx documentation
 #
 
-# You can set these variables from the command line.
-SPHINXOPTS    =
-SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
-PAPER         =
+# You can set these variables from the command line, and also
+# from the environment for the first two.
+SPHINXOPTS    ?=
+SPHINXBUILD   ?= sphinx-build
+SOURCEDIR     = source
 BUILDDIR      = build
-SPHINXAPIDOC  = sphinx-apidoc
-
-# User-friendly check for sphinx-build
-ifeq ($(shell which $(SPHINXBUILD) >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?), 1)
-$(error The '$(SPHINXBUILD)' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx installed, then set the SPHINXBUILD environment variable to point to the full path of the '$(SPHINXBUILD)' executable. Alternatively you can add the directory with the executable to your PATH. If you don't have Sphinx installed, grab it from http://sphinx-doc.org/)
-endif
-
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-# the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
-I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) source
-
-.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest coverage gettext
 
+# Put it first so that "make" without argument is like "make help".
 help:
-	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
-	@echo "  html       to make standalone HTML files"
-	@echo "  dirhtml    to make HTML files named index.html in directories"
-	@echo "  singlehtml to make a single large HTML file"
-	@echo "  pickle     to make pickle files"
-	@echo "  json       to make JSON files"
-	@echo "  htmlhelp   to make HTML files and a HTML help project"
-	@echo "  qthelp     to make HTML files and a qthelp project"
-	@echo "  applehelp  to make an Apple Help Book"
-	@echo "  devhelp    to make HTML files and a Devhelp project"
-	@echo "  epub       to make an epub"
-	@echo "  latex      to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter"
-	@echo "  latexpdf   to make LaTeX files and run them through pdflatex"
-	@echo "  latexpdfja to make LaTeX files and run them through platex/dvipdfmx"
-	@echo "  text       to make text files"
-	@echo "  man        to make manual pages"
-	@echo "  texinfo    to make Texinfo files"
-	@echo "  info       to make Texinfo files and run them through makeinfo"
-	@echo "  gettext    to make PO message catalogs"
-	@echo "  changes    to make an overview of all changed/added/deprecated items"
-	@echo "  xml        to make Docutils-native XML files"
-	@echo "  pseudoxml  to make pseudoxml-XML files for display purposes"
-	@echo "  linkcheck  to check all external links for integrity"
-	@echo "  doctest    to run all doctests embedded in the documentation (if enabled)"
-	@echo "  coverage   to run coverage check of the documentation (if enabled)"
-
-clean:
-	rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/*
-
-extractapi:
-    $(SPHINXAPIDOC) --no-toc -o source ../qctoolkit
-
-html: extractapi
-	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/html
-	@echo
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-	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b qthelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp
-	@echo
-	@echo "Build finished; now you can run "qcollectiongenerator" with the" \
-	      ".qhcp project file in $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp, like this:"
-	@echo "# qcollectiongenerator $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp/qupulse.qhcp"
-	@echo "To view the help file:"
-	@echo "# assistant -collectionFile $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp/qupulse.qhc"
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-	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b applehelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/applehelp
-	@echo
-	@echo "Build finished. The help book is in $(BUILDDIR)/applehelp."
-	@echo "N.B. You won't be able to view it unless you put it in" \
-	      "~/Library/Documentation/Help or install it in your application" \
-	      "bundle."
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-	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b devhelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/devhelp
-	@echo
-	@echo "Build finished."
-	@echo "To view the help file:"
-	@echo "# mkdir -p $$HOME/.local/share/devhelp/qupulse"
-	@echo "# ln -s $(BUILDDIR)/devhelp $$HOME/.local/share/devhelp/qupulse"
-	@echo "# devhelp"
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-	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b coverage $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/coverage
-	@echo "Testing of coverage in the sources finished, look at the " \
-	      "results in $(BUILDDIR)/coverage/python.txt."
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M help "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
 
-xml: extractapi
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+.PHONY: help Makefile
 
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-	@echo
-	@echo "Build finished. The pseudo-XML files are in $(BUILDDIR)/pseudoxml."
+# Catch-all target: route all unknown targets to Sphinx using the new
+# "make mode" option.  $(O) is meant as a shortcut for $(SPHINXOPTS).
+%: Makefile
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)

doc/README.md

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ You may either build the documentation yourself or read it on [readthedocs](http
 In the subdirectory *examples* you can find various [Jupyter notebook](http://jupyter.org/) files providing some step-by-step examples of how qupulse can be used. These can be explored in an interactive fashion by running the *Jupyter notebook* application inside the folder. However, a static version will also be included in the documentation created with *sphinx*.
 
 ## Building the Documentation
-To build the documentation, you will need [sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/), [sphinx-autodoc-typehints](https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-autodoc-typehints/) and [nbsphinx](https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.org/) which, in turn, requires [pandoc](http://pandoc.org/). If the last two are not present, the examples won't be included in the documentation.
-Users of Anaconda on MS Windows may install these by executing `pip install sphinx sphinx-autodoc-typehints nbsphinx` and `conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/asmeurer pandoc`.
+To build the documentation, you will need [sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/), [sphinx-autodoc-typehints](https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-autodoc-typehints/), [sphinx-autopackagesummary](https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-autopackagesummary/) and [nbsphinx](https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.org/) which, in turn, requires [pandoc](http://pandoc.org/).
 
-The documentation is built by invoking `make <format>` inside the */doc* directory, where `<format>` is an output format supported by *sphinx*, e.g., `html`. The output will then be found in `/doc/build/<target>`.
+The documentation is built by invoking `make <format>` inside the */doc* directory, where `<format>` is an output format supported by *sphinx*, e.g., `html`. The output will then be found in `/doc/build/<target>`.