setup.py build_sphinx is broken

[Stephen Turnbull]

Like this:

steve@turnbull:~/src/Mailman3/mailman-trunk$ python setup.py build_sphinx
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'build_sphinx'

For more information (version, configuration, and build log), see Bug #1035057.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

That commands comes with distribute, but not setuptools. Can you tell me, are you on a Debian or Ubuntu (or other Debian-based) OS? If so, I don't know what's going on, but if not, I suspect the problem is the line:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

On Debian, setuptools is really distribute, so it all works, but on non-Debian derived systems, this is probably broken.

[Mikhail Titov (mtitov)]

This might be fixed by sudo apt-get install python-sphinx .
I had this issue with my own package before I figured out that I did not have sphinx installed. This works on Ubuntu 13.04 with both setuptools & distuitils. I suggest to close this bug as invalid.

[Abhilash Raj (raj-abhilash1)]

This bug has been moved to the new gitlab repo here: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/issues/46