Ned Deily <nad@python.org> added the comment:
Shouldn’t the html target depend on venv then?
Back when we added support for blurb, I tried to make it such that "make html" could easily use already installed versions of sphinx-build and blurb and not require a venv. I had a particular use case for that. But if someone wants to modify the Docs Makefile to require using the venv recipe, I wouldn't object too strongly. Another approach, I guess, would be to check that the python-docs-theme is available to sphinx-build and give a better message: not sure how best to do that in the current Makefile. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33543> _______________________________________