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 ### Documentation
 Look in the docs/ directory. Within the build/html/ there is the html version of the documentation. The documentation is also hosted on http://personal.ph.surrey.ac.uk/~ri0005/doc/binary_c/binary_c.html but only for the most recent stable release.
 
+This documentation is hosted on gitlab-pages through a gitlab-runner that executes the contents of `.gitlab-ci.yml`. The runner copies the contents of `docs/build/html` to `public/`.
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 ## Development:
 If you want to contribute to the code, then it is recommended that you install the packages in `development_requirements.txt`: