[Python-checkins] cpython: Doc: do not rely on checked-out Sphinx toolchain from svn.python.org anymore

Sun Feb 16 11:05:34 CET 2014

On 2/16/2014 3:46 AM, georg.brandl wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/eef7899ea7ab
> changeset: 89212:eef7899ea7ab
> user: Georg Brandl <georg at python.org>
> date: Sun Feb 16 09:46:36 2014 +0100
> summary:
> Doc: do not rely on checked-out Sphinx toolchain from svn.python.org anymore

For me, working on Windows, this patch is a regression. I somehow missed 
the discussion, and I do not see an issue number.
> Nowadays it is likely that people will have Sphinx installed,

I have Sphinx installed because make(.bat) checkout installed it. I 
suspect that most people setting up on Windows will not have it already.
> and if not, they will know how to install it.

Sorry, I don't. Make checkout installed 4 packages, so it looks like 
there are 4 installs. These have to not only be installed, but installed 
so that the rest of make.bat still works, or perhaps make.bat will have 
to be revised.
> This also simplifies life a lot for distribution packagers,
> who typically do not want the doc build process to connect
> to external web resources.

This is irrelevant for a repository on Windows. If the files are still 
on svn.python.org, why disable something that works? If they have been 
removed, please provide substitute instructions, if not a .bat file, 
that have been tested and shown to work on Windows
Terry