[Python-Dev] Anyone else seeing a lack of caching in local docs builds?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:02:16 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 05:44, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> > On 1/27/2019 9:01 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:  
> > > For now, I'm assuming I've messed something up with my local docs
> > > build setup, but figured I'd ask if anyone else was seeing this, in
> > > case it was actually broken at the build level (CI wouldn't pick this
> > > up, since it always builds from scratch anyway).  
> >
> > I think something is broken.  Caching used to work better.  
> 
> In my case, I had an older version of blurb installed, which was
> keeping NEWS from rendering properly, and I suspect that was
> preventing Sphinx from marking the cache as valid.
> 
> I'm not sure about that theory though, as I would have expected an
> invalid NEWS file to only keep the NEWS file from being cached.

I've often noticed oddities in Sphinx caching on other projects.
I'm not sure the algorithm is extremely precise.

Regards

Antoine.