Hi, Old thread revival! I was going through my archive and noticed this unanswered message from late September which prompted me to do a bit of research.
However, upload_docs never quite works out of the box for me anyway. First, it insists on an index.html file, which my Sphinx builds never seem to write, so I always have to add a symlink. Barry, do you mean that you have all files generated by Sphinx but not index.html ? That's weird, Sphinx should generate it like the others. Except that I don't have an index.txt file. It kind of doesn't make sense. I use buildout and have this in my buildout.cfg:
[docs] recipe = z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc eggs = mailman [docs] index-doc = docs/README default.css = layout.html = extensions = sphinxconf
So what I end up doing is symlinking index.html to README.html before I upload.
I don’t know the recipe, but the “index-doc” settings clearly looks like something that controls what the master page is called. I guess it’s because you want your README file to serve double duty as Sphinx front page. Now for the good news: I found you a way to make Sphinx use that file as index.html: http://osdir.com/ml/sphinx-dev/2010-10/msg00082.html One may argue that upload_docs should just bundle *.html files, without imposing the existence of index.html; I think the check is useful.
Second, it doesn't seem to play nicely with the location
that my buildout-based builds puts the docs, so I always also have to use --upload-dir. Yes, it would be nice if both of these problems were fixed too. Yes, I should report them as bugs (or just fix 'em ;). How would you fix the second issue ? e.g. if the docs is not in docs/ or doc/ That's a good question! Maybe it's a buildout or recipe issue?
You can make the upload-dir setting persistent by putting it in your setup.cfg. Or if the recipe is used by a large part of the community, open a feature request to have this directory automatically found if neither docs nor doc exist. What is the directory path, btw? Regards