Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: poxy
Version: 0.8.1
Summary: Documentation generator for C++.
Home-page: https://github.com/marzer/poxy
Download-URL: https://pypi.org/project/poxy/
Author: Mark Gillard
Author-email: mark.gillard@outlook.com.au
License: MIT
Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/marzer/poxy
Project-URL: Tracker, https://github.com/marzer/poxy/issues
Keywords: c++,doxygen,documentation
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: C++
Classifier: Topic :: Documentation
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Documentation
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
Requires-Python: >=3
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE.txt

# poxy

Documentation generator for C++ based on Doxygen and [mosra/m.css](https://mcss.mosra.cz/).

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-   [Overview](#overview)
-   [Example](#example)
-   [Installation](#installation)
-   [Usage](#usage)
-   [Config file options](#config-file-options)
-   [Migrating from Doxygen](#migrating-from-doxygen)
-   [Why the name "Poxy"?](#why-the-name-poxy)
-   [License and Attribution](#license-and-attribution)

<br><br>

## Overview

[mosra/m.css] is a Doxygen-based documentation generator that significantly improves on Doxygen's default output
by controlling some of Doxygen's more unruly options, supplying it's own slick HTML+CSS generation and adding
a fantastic live search feature. **Poxy** builds upon both by:

-   Moving the configuration out into a TOML file
-   Preprocessing the Doxygen XML to fix a bunch of Doxygen _~~bugs~~_ quirks
-   Postprocessing the generated HTML to improve syntax highlighting and add a few other improvements
-   Allowing source, image and example directories to be recursive or shallow on a per-directory basis
-   Automatically defining C++ language feature macros based on your project's target C++ version
-   Automatically integrating the cppreference.com doxygen tagfile
-   Providing a number of additional built-in doxygen `@alias` commands
-   Giving more control over the HTML inline using square-bracket `[tags][/tags]`
-   Quite a bit more!

<br><br>

## Example

The homepage + documentation for [toml++] is built using poxy:

-   homepage: [marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus](https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus/)
-   config file: [`poxy.toml`](https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus/blob/master/docs/poxy.toml)

<br><br>

## Installation

### Prerequisites:

-   Python 3.5+
-   Doxygen 1.8.20+

### Then:

```sh
pip install poxy
```

<br><br>

## Usage

Poxy is a command-line application.

```
poxy [-h] [-v] [--doxygen <path>] [--dry] [--threads N] [--version] [--werror] [--xmlonly]
            [--ppinclude <regex>] [--ppexclude <regex>] [--nocleanup] [--theme {auto,light,dark,custom}]
            [config]

Generate fancy C++ documentation.

positional arguments:
  config                path to poxy.toml or a directory containing it (default: .)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         enable very noisy diagnostic output
  --doxygen <path>      specify the Doxygen executable to use (default: find on system path)
  --dry                 do a 'dry run' only, stopping after emitting the effective Doxyfile
  --threads N           set the number of threads to use (default: automatic)
  --version             print the version and exit
  --werror              always treat warnings as errors regardless of config file settings
  --xmlonly             stop after generating and preprocessing the Doxygen xml
  --ppinclude <regex>   pattern matching HTML file names to post-process (default: all)
  --ppexclude <regex>   pattern matching HTML file names to exclude from post-processing (default: none)
  --nocleanup           does not clean up after itself, leaving the XML and other temp files intact
  --theme {auto,light,dark,custom}
                        the CSS theme to use (default: auto)
```

The basic three-step to using Poxy is similar to Doxygen:

1. Create your `poxy.toml` (Poxy's answer to the `Doxyfile`)
2. Invoke Poxy on it: `poxy path/to/poxy.toml` (or simply `poxy` if the cwd contains the config file)
3. See your HTML documentation `<cwd>/html`

ℹ&#xFE0F; If there exists a `Doxyfile` or `Doxyfile-mcss` in the same directory as your `poxy.toml` it will be loaded
first, then the Poxy overrides applied on top of it. Otherwise a 'default' Doxyfile is used as the base.

<br><br>

## Config file options

For a self-contained `poxy.toml` example to copy and paste from, see [the one used by toml++](https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus/blob/master/docs/poxy.toml).

For a full list of options, with full descriptions, schemas and usage examples, see the [Configuration options] wiki page.

<br><br>

## Migrating from Doxygen

Generally the relevant `Doxyfile` options will have a corresponding `poxy.toml` option
(or be replaced by something more specific) so migration is largely a transcription and box-ticking exercise,
though there are a few gotchas:

#### **⚠&#xFE0F; The majority of Doxygen's options are controlled by Poxy**

Many of Doxygen's various knobs and switches are manually overridden by Poxy, and are not configurable.
**This is intentional!** Doxygen tends to break in hilarious and fantastic ways from one release to the next;
reducing it to a very 'locked-down' back-end minimizes the damage future regressions can do, allowing me to
keep most debugging python-side.

If there is some Doxygen feature you would like exposed in Poxy, please create a [feature request].

#### **⚠&#xFE0F; All relative input paths are relative to the config file, _not_ CWD**

This is in contrast to Doxygen, which has all paths be relative to the Doxygen process' current working directory
regardless of where the Doxyfile was. I've always personally found that to be nothing but a source of error,
so Poxy does away with it.

#### **⚠&#xFE0F; Output is always emitted to CWD**

Poxy always emits the output html to `<cwd>/html`. This is largely to simplify the HTML post-process step.

#### **⚠&#xFE0F; Poxy config files are self-contained**

There is no equivalent to Doxygen's `@INCLUDE`. If your project is structured in such a way that a multi-level Doxyfile hierarchy is necessary, Poxy isn't for you.

<br><br>

## Why the name "Poxy"?

Originally it was simply called "dox", but there's already a C++ documentation project with that name, so I smashed
"python" and "dox" together and this is what I came up with.

Also "poxy" can be slang for cheap, inferior, poor quality, etc., which I thought was funny.

<br><br>

## License and Attribution

This project is published under the terms of the [MIT license](https://github.com/marzer/poxy/blob/main/LICENSE.txt).

Significant credit must go to Vladimír Vondruš ([mosra]) and his amazing [m.css] framework. Poxy bundles a fork of m.css, used per the [MIT/Expat license](https://github.com/mosra/m.css/blob/master/COPYING) (which can also be found in the installed python package).

[m.css]: https://mcss.mosra.cz/documentation/doxygen/
[mosra]: https://github.com/mosra
[mosra/m.css]: https://mcss.mosra.cz/documentation/doxygen/
[toml++]: https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus/
[c++ feature test macros]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/feature_test
[configuration options]: https://github.com/marzer/poxy/wiki/Configuration-options
[feature request]: https://github.com/marzer/poxy/issues/new

# Changelog

## v0.8.1 - 2022-09-30

-   minor style fixes

## v0.8.0 - 2022-09-29

-   added config option `gitlab` (#13) (@wroyca)
-   added ixx module extension in source patterns (#11) (@wroyca)
-   added support for multi-codepoint emojis
-   improved `doxygen.exe` location discovery on Windows
-   improved `CHANGELOG` location discovery
-   moved all poxy assets in the generated HTML to `html/poxy`
-   self-hosted google fonts in generated HTML (instead of requiring additional HTTP requests on page load) (#6)
-   removed ability to override m.css implementation
-   removed legacy support for reading config options from neighbouring Doxyfiles
-   overhauled the light theme
-   many minor style fixes and tweaks

## v0.7.1 - 2022-08-17

-   fixed crash on python &lt;= 3.8 (#9) (@wroyca)

## v0.7.0 - 2022-08-16

-   fixed some `<link>`, `<meta>` and `<script>` tags not being included in `<head>` when a file was excluded from post-processing
-   added `theme` command-line option
-   added `html_header` config option option
-   added automatic generation of github links in changelog when config option `github` is set
-   added new light theme
-   added dynamic switch for dark/light theme
-   removed text from github icon on navbar (#5) (@wroyca)
-   removed excessive spacing between article sections (#5) (@wroyca)
-   many minor style fixes and tweaks

## v0.6.1 - 2022-08-16

-   fixed multi-row navbar occluding page content (#3) (@wroyca)

## v0.6.0 - 2022-08-14

-   fixed malformed error messages in some circumstances
-   added builtin C++ standard macros for C++23
-   added `changelog` config option
-   updated cppreference.com tagfile

## v0.5.7 - 2022-05-17

-   fixed being able to pass >= 33 threads to Doxygen's `NUM_PROC_THREADS`

## v0.5.6 - 2022-05-14

-   fixed path error when using `--dry`
-   fixed `friend` keyword sometimes leaking into function return types
-   added additional language code block aliases
-   added `--nocleanup` to `--help` output
-   added support for C++20's `consteval` keyword

## v0.5.5 - 2022-04-16

-   fixed C++20 concepts causing a crash in m.css (they are now skipped with a warning) (#1) (@jake-arkinstall)

## v0.5.4 - 2022-04-15

-   updated m.css
-   updated emoji database

## v0.5.3 - 2021-12-12

-   fixed Doxygen bug that would sometimes treat keywords like `friend` as part of a function's return type
-   Blacklisted schema 0.7.5 because [it's broken](https://github.com/keleshev/schema/issues/272)

## v0.5.2 - 2021-11-02

-   fixed over-eager link-replacement for internal `#anchor` links
-   added command-line options `--ppinclude` and `--ppexclude`

## v0.5.1 - 2021-10-09

-   fixed over-eager link replacement causing text to be deleted

## v0.5.0 - 2021-09-11

-   fixed a crash during HTML post-processing
-   fixed `implementation_headers` not working when paths use backslashes
-   added warnings when `implementation_headers` doesn't match anything

## v0.4.5 - 2021-06-08

-   added command-line option `--xmlonly`

## v0.4.3 - 2021-05-31

-   fixed regression in `[code_blocks]` functionality
-   fixed minor issues in syntax highlighter
-   added symbols from doxygen tagfiles to the syntax highlighter
-   minor style tweaks

## v0.4.1 - 2021-05-30

-   fixed `.dirs` being glommed as source paths
-   added config option `scripts`
-   added config option `stylesheets`
-   added config option `jquery`
-   added `custom` theme
-   added ability to use `HOME.md` as main page
-   added additional fix for inline `<code>` blocks
-   added `.poxy-toc` to table-of-contents elements
-   added floating page table-of-contents
-   removed m.css favicon fallback
-   made improvements to the `light` and `dark` themes
-   updated C++ doxygen tagfile

## v0.4.0 - 2021-05-29

-   added config option `theme`
-   added version number to CSS and javascript filenames to prevent browser cache issues
-   added `POXY_IMPLEMENTATION_DETAIL(...)` magic macro
-   added `POXY_IGNORE(...)` magic macro
-   fixed alignment of nested images inside detail blocks

## v0.3.4 - 2021-05-28

-   added basic `using` alias detection to syntax highlighter
-   added missing badges for C++23, 26 and 29

## v0.3.3 - 2021-05-23

-   fixed sorting of namespace and group members
-   fixed m.css failing with new versions of doxygen due to `Doxyfile.xml`
-   added google structured data to `\pages`

## v0.3.2 - 2021-05-19

-   fixed formatting of `<meta>` tags
-   added config option `author`
-   added config option `robots`
-   added markup tag `[p]`
-   added markup tag `[center]`

## v0.3.1 - 2021-05-13

-   added config option `macros`
-   added command-line option `--version`

## v0.3.0 - 2021-05-09

-   Improved handling of m.css and Doxygen warnings and errors
-   added command-line option `--doxygen`
-   added command-line option `--werror`
-   added markup tag `[set_parent_class]`
-   added markup tag `[add_parent_class]`
-   added markup tag `[remove_parent_class]`
-   added config option `images`
-   added config option `examples`
-   added ability to specify tagfiles as URIs

## v0.2.1 - 2021-05-07

-   fixed some minor autolinking issues

## v0.2.0 - 2021-05-06

-   added config option `source_patterns`

## v0.1.2 - 2021-05-02

-   fixed the Z-order of the nav bar being higher than the search overlay
-   added `NDEBUG` to the default set of defines

## v0.1.1 - 2021-04-26

-   added an additional cleanup step to the HTML postprocessor

## v0.1.0 - 2021-04-26

First public release :tada:
