On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 4:11:44 PM EDT Brett Cannon wrote:
One place where this might actually show itself to be useful is with the PEPs. That build toolchain generates HTML files directly and doesn't even use Sphinx (at least not yet). I have opened https://github.com/python/peps/issues/241 to discuss the idea.
Sounds like a good place to try the process.
One of the reasons why we went with GH Pages for asyncpg is that at the time RTFD did not support Python 3.5 syntax and we wanted to use autodoc. Could this be an issue when building Python documentation? Can the master branch Docs/ be built by Sphinx running on Python 3.4?
There's no version requirement for the docs as we don't use the autodoc extension. And I think Read the Docs uses a newer image now as I was buliding the docs for gidgethub using autodoc and that uses 3.5 syntax.
And how would versions be handles for GH Pages? E.g. how would docs.python.org handle viewing the e.g. 2.7 data? I guess you're just really careful to upload to subdirectories in the gh-pages branch?
Yes, we can continue using the current switcher and subfolders.
Elvis