Welcome to Flow-IPC

This site hosts up-to-date documentation and release info for the Flow-IPC project. The documentation found here is identical to that packaged in Flow-IPC and Flow release packages and source-control checkouts.

Where to begin?

The project lives in the Flow-IPC organization at GitHub. You can obtain it either via Git checkout (with submodules enabled) or by grabbing a release package. To get your bearings as to the nature of the project please see the main repository, named ipc. To wit:

The README in that repo is a good place to start. It might direct you back to this site, if you’d like to read online documentation and/or peruse or obtain a particular version of the product. Those resources can be found below. So to summarize:

• Flow-IPC “base of operations” is the GitHub organization (especially ipc repo) linked here.
• The web site you’re reading, at this time, merely hosts online documentation and release links for your convenience.

Documentation and releases

Here is the Flow-IPC online documentation for your immediate perusal (plus release links):

• Flow-IPC branch main tip: documentation
• Release Flow-IPC v1.0.0: documentation | release info
• Release Flow-IPC v1.0.1: documentation | release info
• Release Flow-IPC v1.0.2: documentation | release info

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Note: If you have a Flow-IPC release package (from above), you do not need a Flow package (from below): it’s already included. The online Flow documentation links and release notes may be of interest, though.

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Here is the Flow online documentation for your immediate perusal (plus release links):

• Flow branch main tip: documentation
• Release Flow v1.0.0: documentation | release info
• Release Flow v1.0.1: documentation | release info

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Or you can locally view the same documentation by pointing your browser at the below-mentioned locations in your checkout or unpacked package. Or, upon clicking on a CI/CD pipeline run for Flow-IPC or Flow, you can download the artifact named ipc-doc or flow-doc, respectively. It is a tarball containing the documentation; unpack it and point your browser at the result.

Such documentation is generated directly from the source code automatically and is stored as follows:

• (for Flow-IPC) inside the checked-out repository ipc in the doc/ipc_doc/ directory;
  • (for Flow) inside the checked-out (with submodules) repository ipc: in the flow/doc/flow_doc/ directory;
• (for Flow) inside the checked-out repository flow: in the doc/flow_doc/ directory;
• online at this web site, as linked above.

Both sets of documentation (in-repo and online) are generated/deployed automatically:

• when the main branch of ipc or flow is updated, thus changing the source code of Flow-IPC or Flow respectively;
• when the main branch of ipc or flow is tagged to mark a new release (e.g., v1.2.3) of Flow-IPC or Flow respectively.