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name: Build Documentation

on:
push:
branches:
- main
paths:
- "doc/**"
- ".github/workflows/docs.yaml"
- "pyproject.toml"
pull_request:
paths:
- "doc/**"
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- ".github/workflows/docs.yaml"
workflow_dispatch:

permissions: {}

jobs:
build-docs:
name: Build Sphinx docs
runs-on: ubuntu-latest

concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: true

env:
READTHEDOCS: "True"
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this reads like we're trying to impressionate RTD. Is there a reason for doing this that I'm missing ?

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Not trying to impersonate RTD. The https://github.com/yt-project/yt/blob/main/doc/Makefile#L49 checks that env var and skips sphinx-apidoc, which generates API stubs for every yt module. Those stubs cause autodoc to import the full package at build time, which can fail if compiled extensions or data aren't available. https://github.com/yt-project/yt/blob/main/doc/source/conf.py#L46 also uses it to skip autosummary and pythonscript_sphinxext (which executes inline Python scripts in the docs). It's saves time, and its avoiding build failures from operations that need a fully configured yt environment. Happy to use a different env var if you'd prefer

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thanks for the detailed explanation, I really had no idea this was the state of our setup


steps:
- name: Checkout repo
uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
with:
persist-credentials: false

- name: Set up uv
uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@681c641aba71e4a1c380be3ab5e12ad51f415867 # v7.1.6
with:
python-version: "3.12"
enable-cache: false

- name: Install pandoc
run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y pandoc
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- name: Install dependencies
run: uv sync --group=docs

- name: Build HTML docs
run: |
cd doc
uv run make html
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This doesn't look right. Where is that make python entry point supposed to come from ?

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make is preinstalled on Ubuntu runners. The Makefile sets SPHINXBUILD = sphinx-build, so it needs sphinx-build on PATH. uv run handles that by prepending the venv's bin/ directory to PATH before executing the command, and child processes inherit it (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/run/). Since we're setting READTHEDOCS=True (which skips sphinx-apidoc in the Makefile), we could also just call uv run sphinx-build -b html -d doc/build/doctrees doc/source doc/build/html directly if you'd prefer to skip make.

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The given command can be provided by the project environment or exist outside

oh, I was not aware uv run did this. It makes total sense now


- name: Upload built docs
uses: actions/upload-artifact@bbbca2ddaa5d8feaa63e36b76fdaad77386f024f # v7.0.0
with:
name: yt-docs-html
path: doc/build/html/
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