[yt-dev] API links in the docs?

Nathan Goldbaum nathan12343 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 20:52:13 PDT 2012


Ok, well if that means the docstrings don't make it into the html docs, 
I think we need to figure out another solution.  Is it possible to 
include the toctree entries but on one monolithic page or a few pages 
covering different API categories?

-Nathan

On 7/15/12 8:48 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> I can't remember if the current development tip does this or not, but
> one idea that had been floated was removing toctree entries for
> auto-generated docs.  This was to experiment with how search
> functions.  It's likely that if toctree entries aren't emitted by the
> API docs, they won't be available for cross-linking.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry for not being clearer.  It's that there are dead links scattered
>> throughout the docs.
>>
>> I've placed a build of the docs at
>> http://ucolick.org/~goldbaum/files/build/html/
>>
>> If you compare this page:
>> http://ucolick.org/~goldbaum/files/build/html/analyzing/objects.html
>>
>> to the equivalent in the current version of the docs:
>> http://yt-project.org/doc/analyzing/objects.html
>>
>> You'll see that links to api entries don't work.  In the 2.3 docs the api
>> entries pointed to a page like this:
>>
>> http://yt-project.org/doc/reference/api/generated/yt.data_objects.data_containers.AMRCylinderBase.html#yt.data_objects.data_containers.AMRCylinderBase
>>
>>
>> On 7/15/12 8:33 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:
>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>
>>> Not sure I understand -- is the link to the API docs not going?  Is
>>> api.rst not being built?  Are there links to things in the docs
>>> scattered about that are dead?
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> It seems that the recent changes to the docs have broken the internal
>>>> links
>>>> to api references.  Since the docstrings are inside the api references,
>>>> this
>>>> means the docstrings don't show up in new builds of the docs.  I'm not
>>>> sure
>>>> if this is a sphinx issue or an issue with the tip of yt-doc.
>>>>
>>>> I think there was some discussion about consolidating the api reference
>>>> pages, which I am in favor of, but we should still make sure the
>>>> docstrings
>>>> are available inside the html docs.
>>>>
>>>> Nathan
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