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

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Date:   Tue, 2 Aug 2022 01:30:18 +0200
From:   Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@...il.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Address some issues with sphinx detection

On Sat,  2 Jul 2022 11:11:24 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.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