[lldb-dev] [RFC] Using Sphinx to generate documentation

Jonas Devlieghere via lldb-dev lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jan 8 09:31:09 PST 2019


On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 8:52 AM Stefan Gränitz via lldb-dev <
lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi Jonas, I think this is a great effort. Thanks!
>
> My current reviews do some small updates on the build page. Hope this
> doesn't get in conflict with your work?
>

Thanks for the heads up Stefan. This should be fine, I'll copy over your
change in the rst files.


> Best
> Stefan
>
> On 6. Dec 2018, at 18:02, Jonas Devlieghere via lldb-dev <
> lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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. Furthermore I think text/RST files provide a lower
> barrier for new or casual contributors to fix or update.
>
> In line with the other LLVM projects I propose generating the
> documentation with Sphix. I created a patch (
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D55376) that adds a new target docs-lldb-html
> when -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX:BOOL is enabled. I've ported over some pages to
> give an idea of what this would look like in-tree. Before continuing with
> this rather tedious work I'd like to get feedback form the community.
>
> Initially I started with the theme used by Clang because it's a default
> theme and doesn't require configuration. If we want to keep the sidebar we
> could use the one used by LLD.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonas
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