Doxygen vs PyDoctor
Doxygen
doxygen.nlPyDoctor
pydoctor.readthedocs.ioSide by side
| Figure | Doxygen | PyDoctor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Documentation Generators | 7.8 (#11) | 7.4 (#22) |
| Configuration | Doxygen provides more than 100 configurable options for fine-tuning output. | Pydoctor supports configuration through pydoctor.ini, pyproject.toml, and setup.cfg files. |
| Purpose | Doxygen is a documentation generator that creates documentation from source-code comments and parses classes, functions and variables. | PyDoctor is a standalone API documentation generator that uses static analysis of Python source code. |
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In their own words
Doxygen
Doxygen is a free documentation generator that turns source-code comments into reference material, parsing items such as classes, functions and variables. It supports C/C++, Lex, Java, Python, VHDL, PHP IDL, C#, Fortran, Objective-C 2.0 and some D sources. Output can be generated as HTML, PDF through LaTeX, Word through RTF or structured XML for external tools. Graphviz’s dot tool can add include-dependency, collaboration, call, directory-structure and class-hierarchy diagrams. Doxywizard provides a graphical interface for editing settings and running the generator on Windows, Linux and macOS; Doxygen also works on many Unix flavors. It supports HTML Help, docsets, Qt-Help and Eclipse Help, with more than 100 configurable options. The tool runs without registration and does not collect personal or usage data. It is self-hosted and licensed under the GNU General Public License, without express or implied warranty. Help is listed through Stack Overflow and the doxygen users mailing list; commercial feature and bug-fix support has limited capacity.
PyDoctor
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