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EFL DocFX SUPPORT

DocFX (https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/) generates documentation HTML pages directly from source code and Markdown files for C# projects.

Although significantly slow, it is a simple alternative while our own documentation generator for C# is being written.

The scripts in this folder create a documentation site which contains the API reference guide and articles with tutorials and guides. The API guide is generated from the EFL mono sources, which are generated as part of the normal build process. The articles are fetched from the EFL www-content repository and adapted to DocFX syntax.

USAGE

First off, build EFL with C# support enabled so the C# sources are generated (you will need to have mono 5 installed for this). Then, from this folder, run the setup.sh script to download and extract the DocFX binaries to the bin folder, fetch the articles from the www-content repository and adapt them to the DocFX syntax. Finally, run the gendoc.sh script (also from this folder) to produce the HTML files. First run can take a long time (from 10' to 1h), subsequent runs use cached results and take about 5 minutes. The result can be found in the _site folder.

DEPLOYMENT

This is the manual deployment process currently in use. It could certainly be improved and automated. The HTML files produced by DocFX are currently hosted using GitHub pages. The Enlightenment site's content is hosted in the www-content repository: https://git.enlightenment.org/website/www-content.git/ This repo is mirrored at GitHub: https://github.com/Enlightenment/www-content The GitHub mirror has a branch called "gh-pages" which has a "gh-pages" folder at the root.

Whenever new documentation is generated, just copy the _site folder from /doc/docfx in the EFL repo to /gh-pages/api/csharp in the www-content repo (gh-pages branch!) and push to the GitHub mirror. Changes should be visible almost instantly, since they are static pages.