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DocKnot 5.00
(Static web site and documentation generator)
Maintained by Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>
Copyright 1999-2021 Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>. This software is
distributed under a BSD-style license. Please see the section LICENSE
below for more information.
BLURB
DocKnot is a static web site generator built around a macro language
called thread, with special support for managing software releases. In
addition to building a web site, it can generate distribution tarballs
and consistent human-readable software package documentation from a YAML
metadata file and templates. The goal is to generate both web pages and
distributed documentation files (such as README) from the same source,
using templates for consistency across multiple packages.
DESCRIPTION
In 1999, I wrote a program named spin that implemented an idiosyncratic
macro language called thread. It slowly expanded into a static web site
generator and gained additional features to manage the journal entries,
book reviews, RSS feeds, and software releases. DocKnot is the latest
incarnation.
In addition to its static web site generator, DocKnot can use one
metadata file as its source information and generate all the various
bits of documentation for a software package. This allows me to make
any changes in one place and then regenerate the web page, included
documentation, and other files to incorporate those changes. It also
lets me make changes to the templates to improve shared wording and push
that out to every package I maintain without having to remember track
those changes in each package.
DocKnot is also slowly absorbing other tools that I use for software
distribution and web site maintenance, such as generating distribution
tarballs for software packages.
DocKnot was designed and written for my personal needs, and I'm not sure
it will be useful for anyone else. At the least, the template files are
rather specific to my preferences about how to write package
documentation, and the thread macro language is highly specialized for
my personal web site. I'm not sure if I'll have the time to make it a
more general tool. But you're certainly welcome to use it if you find
it useful, send pull requests to make it more general, or take ideas
from it for your own purposes.
REQUIREMENTS
Perl 5.24 or later and Module::Build are required to build this module.
The following additional Perl modules are required to use it:
* Date::Parse (part of TimeDate)
* File::BaseDir
* File::ShareDir
* Git::Repository
* Image::Size
* IO::Compress::Xz (part of IO-Compress-Lzma)
* IO::Uncompress::Gunzip (part of IO-Compress)
* IPC::Run
* IPC::System::Simple
* JSON::MaybeXS
* Kwalify
* List::SomeUtils 0.07 or later
* Perl6::Slurp
* Pod::Thread 3.00 or later
* Template (part of Template Toolkit)
* YAML::XS 0.81 or later
BUILDING AND INSTALLATION
DocKnot uses Module::Build and can be installed using the same process
as any other Module::Build module:
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build install
You will have to run the last command as root unless you're installing
into a local Perl module tree in your home directory.
TESTING
DocKnot comes with a test suite, which you can run after building with:
./Build test
If a test fails, you can run a single test with verbose output via:
./Build test --test_files <path-to-test>
Capture::Tiny and File::Copy::Recursive are required to run the test
suite. The following additional Perl modules will be used by the test
suite if present:
* Devel::Cover
* Perl::Critic::Freenode
* Test::CPAN::Changes (part of CPAN-Changes)
* Test::MinimumVersion
* Test::Perl::Critic
* Test::Pod
* Test::Pod::Coverage
* Test::Spelling
* Test::Strict
* Test::Synopsis
All are available on CPAN. Those tests will be skipped if the modules
are not available.
To enable tests that don't detect functionality problems but are used to
sanity-check the release, set the environment variable RELEASE_TESTING
to a true value. To enable tests that may be sensitive to the local
environment or that produce a lot of false positives without uncovering
many problems, set the environment variable AUTHOR_TESTING to a true
value.
SUPPORT
The DocKnot web page at:
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/docknot/
will always have the current version of this package, the current
documentation, and pointers to any additional resources.
For bug tracking, use the issue tracker on GitHub:
https://github.com/rra/docknot/issues
However, please be aware that I tend to be extremely busy and work
projects often take priority. I'll save your report and get to it as
soon as I can, but it may take me a couple of months.
SOURCE REPOSITORY
DocKnot is maintained using Git. You can access the current source on
GitHub at:
https://github.com/rra/docknot
or by cloning the repository at:
https://git.eyrie.org/git/devel/docknot.git
or view the repository via the web at:
https://git.eyrie.org/?p=devel/docknot.git
The eyrie.org repository is the canonical one, maintained by the author,
but using GitHub is probably more convenient for most purposes. Pull
requests are gratefully reviewed and normally accepted.
LICENSE
The DocKnot package as a whole is covered by the following copyright
statement and license:
Copyright 1999-2021 Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Some files in this distribution are individually released under
different licenses, all of which are compatible with the above general
package license but which may require preservation of additional
notices. All required notices, and detailed information about the
licensing of each file, are recorded in the LICENSE file.
Files covered by a license with an assigned SPDX License Identifier
include SPDX-License-Identifier tags to enable automated processing of
license information. See https://spdx.org/licenses/ for more
information.
For any copyright range specified by files in this package as YYYY-ZZZZ,
the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
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