Initial commit for Read the Docs (#489)

* docs: move files into general

* docs: initial commit for Read the Docs

http://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html

just running `sphinx-quickstart`

* docs: update conf.py

* docs: add requirements.txt

* docs: add README.md

* fix tests

* docs: put original docs back

.travis.yml

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ script:
 - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/tests/c_api_test && python test.py
 - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/python-package && python setup.py install
 - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/tests/python_package_test && python test_basic.py && python test_engine.py && python test_sklearn.py && python test_plotting.py
-- cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR && pep8 --ignore=E501 --exclude=./compute .
+- cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR && pep8 --ignore=E501 --exclude=./compute,./docs .
 - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
 - rm -rf build && mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DUSE_GPU=ON -DBOOST_ROOT="$HOME/miniconda/" -DOpenCL_INCLUDE_DIR=$AMDAPPSDK/include/ ..
 - sed -i 's/std::string device_type = "cpu";/std::string device_type = "gpu";/' ../include/LightGBM/config.h

docs/Makefile

+# Minimal makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+SPHINXPROJ    = LightGBM
+SOURCEDIR     = .
+BUILDDIR      = _build
+
+# Put it first so that "make" without argument is like "make help".
+help:
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M help "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
+
+.PHONY: help Makefile
+
+# Catch-all target: route all unknown targets to Sphinx using the new
+# "make mode" option.  $(O) is meant as a shortcut for $(SPHINXOPTS).
+%: Makefile
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
\ No newline at end of file

docs/Readme.md → docs/README.md

-Documents
-=========
+# Documents
+
+The documentation of LightGBM is generated with Sphinx and recommonmark, and hosted on Read the Docs.
+
+For detail, see:
+
+* [Read the Docs](https://readthedocs.org/)
+  * [Welcome to Read The Docs](http://docs.readthedocs.io/)
+* [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/)
+* [recommonmark](https://recommonmark.readthedocs.io/)
+
+## Build
+
+You can build the documentation locally. Just run:
+
+```sh
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+make html
+```
+
+## Links
+
 * [Installation Guide](https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/wiki/Installation-Guide)
 * [Quick Start](./Quick-Start.md)
 * [Python Quick Start](./Python-intro.md)
@@ -12,4 +32,3 @@ Documents
 * [GPU Tutorial](./GPU-Tutorial.md)
 * [FAQ](./FAQ.md)
 * [Development Guide](./development.md)
-

docs/conf.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# LightGBM documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Thu May  4 14:30:58 2017.
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+# import os
+# import sys
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+from recommonmark.parser import CommonMarkParser
+from recommonmark.transform import AutoStructify
+
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#
+# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+    'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+    'sphinx.ext.todo',
+    'sphinx.ext.viewcode',
+    'sphinx.ext.napoleon',
+]
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+source_parsers = {
+    '.md': CommonMarkParser,
+}
+source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = 'LightGBM'
+copyright = '2017, Microsoft Corporation'
+author = 'Microsoft Corporation'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = ''
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = ''
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = None
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This patterns also effect to html_static_path and html_extra_path
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store']
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
+todo_include_todos = False
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#
+# html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+
+# -- Options for HTMLHelp output ------------------------------------------
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'LightGBMdoc'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+    #
+    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+    #
+    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+    #
+    # 'preamble': '',
+
+    # Latex figure (float) alignment
+    #
+    # 'figure_align': 'htbp',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'LightGBM.tex', 'LightGBM Documentation',
+     'Microsoft Corporation', 'manual'),
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    (master_doc, 'lightgbm', 'LightGBM Documentation',
+     [author], 1)
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'LightGBM', 'LightGBM Documentation',
+     author, 'LightGBM', 'One line description of project.',
+     'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+
+# https://recommonmark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+github_doc_root = 'https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/tree/master/docs'
+def setup(app):
+    app.add_config_value('recommonmark_config', {
+            'url_resolver': lambda url: github_doc_root + url,
+            'auto_toc_tree_section': 'Contents',
+            }, True)
+    app.add_transform(AutoStructify)

docs/index.rst

+.. LightGBM documentation master file, created by
+   sphinx-quickstart on Thu May  4 14:30:58 2017.
+   You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
+   contain the root `toctree` directive.
+
+Welcome to LightGBM's documentation!
+====================================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+   :caption: Contents:
+
+
+
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`modindex`
+* :ref:`search`

docs/make.bat

+@ECHO OFF
+
+pushd %~dp0
+
+REM Command file for Sphinx documentation
+
+if "%SPHINXBUILD%" == "" (
+	set SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build
+)
+set SOURCEDIR=.
+set BUILDDIR=_build
+set SPHINXPROJ=LightGBM
+
+if "%1" == "" goto help
+
+%SPHINXBUILD% >NUL 2>NUL
+if errorlevel 9009 (
+	echo.
+	echo.The 'sphinx-build' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx
+	echo.installed, then set the SPHINXBUILD environment variable to point
+	echo.to the full path of the 'sphinx-build' executable. Alternatively you
+	echo.may add the Sphinx directory to PATH.
+	echo.
+	echo.If you don't have Sphinx installed, grab it from
+	echo.http://sphinx-doc.org/
+	exit /b 1
+)
+
+%SPHINXBUILD% -M %1 %SOURCEDIR% %BUILDDIR% %SPHINXOPTS%
+goto end
+
+:help
+%SPHINXBUILD% -M help %SOURCEDIR% %BUILDDIR% %SPHINXOPTS%
+
+:end
+popd

docs/requirements.txt

+sphinx
+sphinxcontrib-napoleon
+sphinx_rtd_theme
+recommonmark