Code review comment for lp:~ian-clatworthy/bzr/doc-site-per-language

2009/9/8 Ian Clatworthy <email address hidden>:
> 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.

For me, that would be a big disincentive to land this after 2.0 has
branched. We shouldn't be shaking the jello under packagers...

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>