[petsc-dev] Sphinx error

[Jed Brown]

I don't envy the Brew developers who take the blame when Apple breaks things underneath them.  I still boggle at the fact that the clear majority of people use operating systems that lack integrated package management.  This problem has been solved for 25 years.

Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> writes:

>   My fault, for some reason sphinx from brew installed its own private python so I had to do the pip at that.
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>> On Jul 6, 2020, at 9:03 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
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>> Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> writes:
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>>>  Apple's python 2 doesn't use pip
>>> 
>>> $ sudo easy_install src/docs/sphinx_docs/requirements.txt
>>> Processing requirements.txt
>>> error: Not a recognized archive type: src/docs/sphinx_docs/requirements.txt
>>> 
>>> Is this thing supported only for python3?
>> 
>> Perhaps.  Python2 is EOL.  Try this
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>>  python3 -m pip install --user -r src/docs/sphinx_docs/requirements.txt