The development of ABINIT takes place in a global environment, made of several languages or tools:

• F95 for writing most of the sources ;
• Python for writing most of the scripts ;
• Git for the Version management ;
• ROBODOC for processing the sources ;
• Buildbot for running the test farm ;
• …

In the present directory, one has gathered the generic documentation about this environment.

This documentation might include the following :

• Brief introduction, giving the context
• External links, to language reference, tool repository (downloads), tutorials …
• Internal links, to documents written by ABINIT developers (such document being rather general)
• Particulars : in the context of ABINIT, such document describe specific characteristics related to the use of such languages/tools
• Also, some tutorials for developers will address the use of such languages/tools differently.