Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Address some issues with sphinx detection

From: "Tomasz Warniełło" <tomasz.warniello@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Address some issues with sphinx detection
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 01:30:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220802013018.5897f161.tomasz.warniello@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1656756450.git.mchehab@kernel.org>

On Sat,  2 Jul 2022 11:11:24 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> wrote:

> There are two options to install Sphinx:
> 
> 	- via distro-provided packages;
> 	- via pip, using virtualenv/venv.

There are countless ways to install any software. So much for my entrée.

*

I don't know this script. Just what I've read in this thread and what I could
extract from it in no more than ten minutes. I understand what it does - or
rather I do just approximately. And alright! Why not help the Gentoos and
Fedoras and Etc's. Noble.

But - wouldn't it be million times easier for all parties to base the support
on a Dockerfile? Or a script producing the right Dockerfile possibly,
considering matters like Java Script opt- ins and outs. If this is not a
cheap pedantry in this context. I don't know.

These here bases look quite official:

https://hub.docker.com/u/sphinxdoc

(Not that I've used them or know them.)

The admins of whichever distribution will find their ways in the mesh, raw
requirements suffice.

The non-admins may have problems with installing software and also running
Docker, as that provides su powers in the straight scenario. `pip` comes as
an alternative, if I'm not wrong. So maybe this pair is the golden arrow?

--thanks
T