custom requirements

[Borda]

Hi, may I ask how to define a custom path to extra requirements, e.g in our case it is requirements/docs.txt
for now, the action is failing for missing dependencies
https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/2128/checks?check_run_id=753522640
for example, RTD config has

  install:
    - requirements: requirements/docs.txt

[domdfcoding]

You can co-opt the pre-build-command option, which seems to be intended for use with apt-get, to install packages via pip.

Here's how I use it to install tox:

  docs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: ammaraskar/sphinx-action@master
        with:
          pre-build-command: python -m pip install tox

So you could install from your requirements/docs.txt file like this:

          pre-build-command: python -m pip install -r requirements/docs.txt

[ammaraskar]

I think pre-build-command is the best way to deal with this. Auto installing the <docs folder>/requirements.txt is mostly just a general convenience thing that covers like 75% of sphinx usages. While I could add another configurable field for this, I think these fields would quickly grow depending on all the different ways people want to handle their dependencies.

Are you comfortable with continuing to use pre-build-command or do you have any other thoughts @Borda?

[Borda]

You can co-opt the pre-build-command option, which seems to be intended for use with apt-get, to install packages via pip.

that is what already did as this was pending for a while and we needed to get it done, but I feel it not the proper way and I feel it is kind of hack...

I think pre-build-command is the best way to deal with this. Auto installing the /requirements.txt is mostly just a general convenience thing that covers like 75% of sphinx usages.

True, all small-scale project has it this way and most of the larger-scale project has I our way... and as it is not rare you can see as Read-The-Docs has a special entry for the path to requirements files

Are you comfortable with continuing to use pre-build-command or do you have any other thoughts

we did our hack but I would rather see some clear way like RTD format

[Borda]

@ammaraskar any update here or shall we close it as won't fix? 🐰