Hi, I’d like to ask about how the documentation is built. I have followed the instructions to build and install the C++ and Python libraries in my virtual environment and then followed the instructions for building the documentation. However unfortunately it failed. Moreover manually adding to sys.path in conf.py to help it find the packages doesn’t help either. In case people wonder, the development version of pyarrow has been installed in the virtual environment.
(pyarrow-dev) karlkatzen@chloes docs % make html sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees -j8 source _build/html Running Sphinx v4.4.0 [autosummary] generating autosummary for: c_glib/index.rst, cpp/api.rst, cpp/api/array.rst, cpp/api/async.rst, cpp/api/builder.rst, cpp/api/c_abi.rst, cpp/api/compute.rst, cpp/api/cuda.rst, cpp/api/dataset.rst, cpp/api/datatype.rst, ..., python/json.rst, python/memory.rst, python/numpy.rst, python/orc.rst, python/pandas.rst, python/parquet.rst, python/plasma.rst, python/timestamps.rst, r/index.rst, status.rst WARNING: [autosummary] failed to import pyarrow.dataset.CsvFileFormat. Possible hints: * AttributeError: module 'pyarrow' has no attribute 'dataset' * ImportError: no module named pyarrow.dataset * ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyarrow._dataset' WARNING: [autosummary] failed to import pyarrow.dataset.CsvFragmentScanOptions. Possible hints: * AttributeError: module 'pyarrow' has no attribute 'dataset' * ImportError: no module named pyarrow.dataset * ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyarrow._dataset' WARNING: [autosummary] failed to import pyarrow.dataset.Dataset. Possible hints: * AttributeError: module 'pyarrow' has no attribute 'dataset' * ImportError: no module named pyarrow.dataset * ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyarrow._dataset' There is also another issue, namely sphinx-tabs not being installable with conda so using ci/conda_env_sphinx.txt only is not adequate in making docs building possible. This is not exactly documented in developers/documentation.rst. I wonder whether this is a temporary situation or we should actually change the docs to remind people to install it. If we decide to change it I will file a PR to fix that. Ian
