Nathan Skrzypczak 9ad39c026c docs: better docs, mv doxygen to sphinx
This patch refactors the VPP sphinx docs
in order to make it easier to consume
for external readers as well as VPP developers.

It also makes sphinx the single source
of documentation, which simplifies maintenance
and operation.

Most important updates are:

- reformat the existing documentation as rst
- split RELEASE.md and move it into separate rst files
- remove section 'events'
- remove section 'archive'
- remove section 'related projects'
- remove section 'feature by release'
- remove section 'Various links'
- make (Configuration reference, CLI docs,
  developer docs) top level items in the list
- move 'Use Cases' as part of 'About VPP'
- move 'Troubleshooting' as part of 'Getting Started'
- move test framework docs into 'Developer Documentation'
- add a 'Contributing' section for gerrit,
  docs and other contributer related infos
- deprecate doxygen and test-docs targets
- redirect the "make doxygen" target to "make docs"

Type: refactor

Change-Id: I552a5645d5b7964d547f99b1336e2ac24e7c209f
Signed-off-by: Nathan Skrzypczak <nathan.skrzypczak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Yourtchenko <ayourtch@gmail.com>
2021-10-13 23:22:32 +00:00

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.. _packages:
Packages
==========
This section identifies the different VPP packages and describes their contents.
.. toctree::
vpp
---
Vector Packet Processing executables. This is the primary package that must be
installed to use VPP. This package contains:
* vpp - the vector packet engine
* vpp_api_test - vector packet engine API test tool
* vpp_json_test - vector packet engine JSON test tool
vpp-lib
-------
Vector Packet Processing runtime libraries. The *'vpp'* package depends on this
package, so it will always be installed. This package contains the VPP shared
libraries, including:
* vppinfra - Foundation library supporting vectors, hashes, bitmaps, pools, and string formatting.
* svm - vm library
* vlib - vector processing library
* vlib-api - binary API library
* vnet - network stack library
vpp-plugins
-----------
Vector Packet Processing plugin modules.
.. include:: ../../_generated/includes/plugin_list.inc
vpp-dbg
-------
Vector Packet Processing debug symbols.
vpp-dev
-------
Vector Packet Processing development support. This package contains
development support files for the VPP libraries.
vpp-api-python
--------------
Python binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-api-lua
-----------
Lua binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-selinux-policy
------------------
This package contains the VPP Custom SELinux Policy. It is only generated for
Fedora and CentOS distros. For those distros, the *'vpp'* package depends on
this package, so it will always be installed. It will not enable SELinux on
the system. It will install a Custom VPP SELinux policy that will be used if
SELinux is enabled at any time.