SymPy Docs Repository

NOTE: The contents of this repository are generated automatically. To make modifications to the SymPy documentation, edit the RST sources in the doc directory of the main SymPy repo. Pull requests should only be made to this repo if you are modifying old version builds of the docs, or for emergency hotfixes.

This git repository contains all the generated SymPy documentation. It is hosted at http://docs.sympy.org/ automatically by github.

To build the docs in SymPy, cd into the SymPy clone, and do

cd doc
make clean
make html

Then the built docs are in _build/html. To update the docs here, there are several things.

Development docs

These are the easiest. Just build the docs from the latest SymPy master. Then, do

rm -rf dev/
cp -R ../path/to/sympy/doc/_build/html dev/

Then

git add -A dev/

Finally, you need to make sure the index of the different docs on the left of index.html remains intact. Run

./generate_indexes.py

Release docs

This is harder, because you have to update the index.

First, move the current latest docs to the version number (which should currently be a redirect to the latest docs).

git rm -r 0.7.2/
git mv latest 0.7.3

Checkout the SymPy release tag and build the docs as above. Then do

cp -R ../path/to/sympy/doc/_build/html 0.7.3

Edit releases.txt with the new release. Then run

./generate_indexes.py

Finally, you need to make sure the url with the latest version redirects to latest. This is easy. Just run ./generate_redirects.py 0.7.3 latest, and commit the changes.

Pull requests

If you are making a significant change to the documentation in a pull request, feel free to use this site to upload a live version of it. Just create a directory with a reasonable name and put your docs there. If you share the link with a lot of people before the pull request is merged, you might want to sue the generate_redirects.py script to convert the special directory into a redirect to dev once the pull request is merged.

Pushing

Just push the branch up to GitHub. The pages will be updated automatically. If you don't have push access, fork this repo and make a pull request.

Automation

If you want to write a script to automate some or all of this process, that would be great. Just send a pull request. The script should probably go in the SymPy repo, as part of the build script for the release process.

Vikr-182 / sympy_doc