For new comers

New users are encouraged to contribute documentation using the following ways:

• Download the ZOO-Project svn, edit the documentation files located /docs directory and share the modifications through a new ticket set to 'Documentation' tracker
• Create a wiki page containg new or corrected documentation text, and create a new ticket to report its creation.

The ZOO developers responsible for the documentation will then review the contributions to add them into the official docs.

For registered developers

The current structure of the ZOO Project documentation process is for developers with :ref:`SVN <svn>` commit access to maintain their documents in reStructuredText format, and therefore all documents live in the /docs directory in SVN. The Sphinx documentation generator is used to convert the reStructuredText files to html, and the live website is then updated on an hourly basis.

On Linux

• Make sure you have the Python dev and setuptools packages installed. For example on Ubuntu:

  sudo apt-get install python-dev
  sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
  

• Install sphinx using easy_install:

  sudo easy_install Sphinx==1.3.1
  

  Note

  Make sure you install Sphinx 1.3.1 or more recent.

• Checkout the /docs directory from SVN, such as:

  svn checkout http://svn.zoo-project.org/svn/trunk zoo-project
  

• To process the docs, from the ZOO /docs directory, run:

  make html
  

  or

  make latex
  

  The HTML output will be written to the build/html sub-directory.

On Mac OS X |trade|

• Install sphinx using easy_install:

  sudo easy_install-2.7 Sphinx==1.3.1
  

  Note

  Make sure you install Sphinx 1.3.1 or more recent.

• Install MacTex if you want to build pdfs

• Checkout the /docs directory from SVN, such as:

  svn checkout http://svn.zoo-project.org/svn/trunk zoo-project
  

• To process the docs, from the ZOO /docs directory, run:

  make html
  

  or

  make latex
  

  The HTML output will be written to the build/html sub-directory.

On Windows |trade|

• Install Python 2.X

• Download setuptools

• Make sure that the C:/Python2X/Scripts directory is your path

• Execute the following at commandline:

  easy_install Sphinx==1.3.1
  

  ...you should see message: "Finished processing dependencies for Sphinx"

  Note

  Make sure you install Sphinx 1.3.1 or more recent. See note above.

• Install MiKTeX if you want to build pdfs

• Checkout the /docs directory from SVN, such as:

  svn checkout http://svn.zoo-project.org/svn/trunk zoo-project
  

• Inside the /docs directory, execute:

  make html
  

  or

  make latex
  

  The HTML output will be written to the _build/html sub-directory.