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 #include "polyplib-subscribe.h"
 #include "polyplib-scache.h"
 
+/** \file
+ * Include all polyplib header file at once. The following files are included: \ref mainloop-api.h, \ref sample.h,
+ * \ref polyplib-def.h, \ref polyplib-context.h, \ref polyplib-stream.h,
+ * \ref polyplib-introspect.h, \ref polyplib-subscribe.h and \ref polyplib-scache.h
+ * at once */
+
+/** \mainpage
+ *
+ * \section intro_sec Introduction
+ * 
+ * This document describes the client API for the polypaudio sound
+ * server. The API comes in two flavours:
+ * 
+ * \li The complete but somewhat complicated to use asynchronous API
+ * \li And the simplified, easy to use, but limited synchronous API
+ *
+ * The polypaudio client libraries are thread safe as long as all
+ * objects created by any library function are accessed from the thread
+ * that created them only.
+ * 
+ * \section simple_sec Simple API
+ *
+ * Use this if you develop your program in synchronous style and just
+ * need a way to play or record data on the sound server. See
+ * \ref polyplib-simple.h for more details.
+ *
+ * \section async_api Asynchronous API
+ *
+ * Use this if you develop your programs in asynchronous, main loop
+ * based style or want to use advanced features of the polypaudio
+ * API. A good starting point is \ref polyplib-context.h
+ *
+ * The asynchronous API relies on an abstract main loop API that is
+ * described in \ref mainloop-api.h. Two distinct implementations are
+ * available:
+ * 
+ * \li \ref mainloop.h: a minimal but fast implementation based on poll()
+ * \li \ref glib-mainloop.h: a wrapper around GLIB's main loop
+ *
+ * UNIX signals may be hooked to a main loop using the functions from
+ * \ref mainloop-signal.h
+ *
+ * \section pkgconfig pkg-config
+ *
+ * The polypaudio libraries provide pkg-config snippets for the different modules. To use the
+ * asynchronous API use "polyplib" as pkg-config file. GLIB main loop
+ * support is available as "polyplib-glib-mainloop". The simple
+ * synchronous API is available as "polyplib-simple".
+ */
+
 #endif