Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] docs: User oriented documentation

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:23:57AM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 20/03/2019 11:20, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 04:20:04PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> This is a project I've been musing over for a long time now, to try and
> >> address Xen's almost complete absense of documentation.
> >>
> >> This series, plus some other in-progress conversion of the command line 
> >> doc,
> >> is available to view at:
> >>
> >>   https://andrewcoop-xen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> >>
> >> This is read-the-docs's automatic CI build of documentation from a branch 
> >> on
> >> gitlab.  Observe that the docs don't look like they are out of the 90's, 
> >> and
> >> are automatically translated into PDF and ePUB format as well.
> >>
> >> In due course I'll see about updating xenbits.xen.org/docs to render this 
> >> as
> >> well, but I don't have sufficient tuits at the moment.
> >>
> >> Andrew Cooper (3):
> >>   docs/sphinx: Skeleton setup
> >>   docs/rst: Use pandoc to render ReStructuredText
> >>   docs/admin-guide: Boot time microcode loading
> > I don't think these changes introduce new dependencies in the build.
> > Assuming my observation is correct:
> >
> > Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In the short term, no.  In due course, we'll need virtualenv and a bit
> more integration for anyone wanting to build the sphinx tree locally,
> but I'm fairly sure we get virtualenv automatically by already having
> python as a build dependency.

I don't think python depends on virtualenv -- it's the other way around
on Debian.

Using virtualenv can isolate build from host python, but that's it.  I
don't think virtualenv is a hard dependency . Distros already package
sphinx. 

Wei.

> 
> ~Andrew

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