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Re: sphinx-build vs. Python 3

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On 08/20/2018 09:50 AM, Ondrej Novy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have question about sphinx-build and our effort to move to Python 3.
> 
> sphinx-build is currently Python 2 or Python 3 according to
> python-sphinx / python3-sphinx package installed (with python3 as
> default if both are installed by alternative priority). 
> 
> According
> to: https://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide#Sphinx_documentation we
> should use "python3 -m sphinx" if we want to build docs using Python 3,
> because if you run sphinx-build, you can't be sure which version of
> Sphinx is run and if you need some Sphinx extension, which we typically
> installs only Python 2 or Python 3 version of it.
> 
> And my question is:
> * should we use "python3 -m sphinx" instead of "sphinx-build" everywhere
> where python3-sphinx is in B-D (mass-commit?)
> OR
> * should we change sphinx-build to be Python3 only? (and broke current
> packages build with Python2 Sphinx)
> 
> Thanks for your opinions.

If you do the later, then anyway, you'll have to do the former if you
need backports. This bite me a few times with OpenStack already. So, no
mater what the faith of the sphinx-build command, it's always best to
use python3 -m sphinx, IMO.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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sphinx-build vs. Python 3 Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2018-08-20 10:10 +0200
  Re: sphinx-build vs. Python 3 Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 12:40 +0200
    Re: sphinx-build vs. Python 3 Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2018-08-21 10:50 +0200
      Re: sphinx-build vs. Python 3 Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2018-08-21 12:40 +0200
        Re: sphinx-build vs. Python 3 Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2018-08-21 13:00 +0200
  Re: sphinx-build vs. Python 3 Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2018-08-21 15:10 +0200
    Re: sphinx-build vs. Python 3 Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2018-08-21 22:30 +0200

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