> if
> the dependency on sphinx is not mandatory. Because we know sphinx is
> hard to build on old platforms this could break packaging on ubuntu
> <<jaunty, and that would be bad. Is it feasible to fall back to a
> non-sphinx method?
Once this patch lands, Sphinx is mandatory. There are 2 reasons for that:
1. to get things working correctly w.r.t. topic-centric navigation
and multiple formats, the docs now include Sphinx-only markup,
e.g. the toctree directive and :doc: links.
2. The old rules have been removed from the Makefile.
Martin Pool wrote:
> if
> the dependency on sphinx is not mandatory. Because we know sphinx is
> hard to build on old platforms this could break packaging on ubuntu
> <<jaunty, and that would be bad. Is it feasible to fall back to a
> non-sphinx method?
Once this patch lands, Sphinx is mandatory. There are 2 reasons for that:
1. to get things working correctly w.r.t. topic-centric navigation
and multiple formats, the docs now include Sphinx-only markup,
e.g. the toctree directive and :doc: links.
2. The old rules have been removed from the Makefile.
Ian C.