Regarding building the documentation, I was able to figure out that I needed to install sphinx separately. The HACKING.rst.txt file only mentions Numpy Cython and pytest as dependencies.

I was able to get the make command running with `make html PYVER=3.5`, but I'm getting the follwing error:

Could not import extension numpydoc (exception: cannot import name 'Directive')

I'm sure I have the extension installed, since it's listed in the sphinx directory. Any idea what the problem is?

On 24 April 2018 at 21:51, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Eric Larson <larson.eric.d@gmail.com> wrote:
Since this project will include documentation, I'm trying to build the docs. However, from the Makefile at scipy/doc it appears that python3.6 is required, whereas only python3.5 is available for my platform (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS). I generally try to avoid adding third-party repos unless absolutely required, so I am asking for help here. Is installing python3.6 the only solution, or will changing the PYVERS variable in the Makefile work?
I suspect 3.5 should work once you get it to use your Python binaries. I doubt we have anything that is Python-3.6 specific (though there very well be some Python 3-isms that will not work on 2.7).

There's a PYVER=3.6 at the top of the Makefile. Simply doing `make html PYVER=3.5` should build the docs with your 3.5 install (if not, change that one line in the Makefile to say 3.5).

Ralf

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