.travis.yml

@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 sudo: false
 language: python
 install: 
-  - pip3 install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-extra.txt
+        - pip3 install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-extra.txt
 script: tox
 matrix:
-  include:
-    - os: "linux"
-      dist: "xenial"
-      python: "3.6"
-    - os: "linux"
-      dist: "xenial"
-      python: "3.7"
-    - os: "linux"
-      dist: "focal"
-      python: "3.8"
-    - os: "linux"
-      dist: "focal"
-      python: "3.9"
-    - os: "windows"
-      language: shell
-      python: "3.9"
-      env: "PATH=/c/python39:/c/python39/Scripts:$PATH"
-      before_install:
-              - choco install python --version=3.9.6
-              - cp /c/python39/python.exe /c/python39/python3.exe
-      script: tox -e py39
+        include:
+                - os: "linux"
+                  dist: "xenial"
+                  python: "3.6"
+                - os: "linux"
+                  dist: "xenial"
+                  python: "3.7"
+                - os: "linux"
+                  dist: "focal"
+                  python: "3.8"
+                - os: "linux"
+                  dist: "focal"
+                  python: "3.9"
+                - os: "windows"
+                  language: shell
+                  python: "3.8"
+                  env: "PATH=/c/python38:/c/python38/Scripts:$PATH"
+                  before_install:
+                          - choco install python --version=3.8.6
+                          - cp /c/python38/python.exe /c/python38/python3.exe
+                  script: tox -e py38

hscommon/sphinxgen.py

@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
 import os.path as op
 import re
 
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from pkg_resources import load_entry_point, get_distribution
+
 from .build import read_changelog_file, filereplace
-from sphinx.cmd.build import build_main as sphinx_build
 
 CHANGELOG_FORMAT = """
 {version} ({date})
@@ -71,10 +73,26 @@ def gen(
     if op.exists(confpath):
         conf_out = op.join(basepath, "conf.py")
         filereplace(confpath, conf_out, **confrepl)
-    # Call the sphinx_build function, which is the same as doing sphinx-build from cli
-    try:
-        sphinx_build([basepath, destpath])
-    except SystemExit:
-        print(
-            "Sphinx called sys.exit(), but we're cancelling it because we don't actually want to exit"
-        )
+    if LooseVersion(get_distribution("sphinx").version) >= LooseVersion("1.7.0"):
+        from sphinx.cmd.build import build_main as sphinx_build
+
+        # Call the sphinx_build function, which is the same as doing sphinx-build from cli
+        try:
+            sphinx_build([basepath, destpath])
+        except SystemExit:
+            print(
+                "Sphinx called sys.exit(), but we're cancelling it because we don't actually want to exit"
+            )
+    else:
+        # We used to call sphinx-build with print_and_do(), but the problem was that the virtualenv
+        # of the calling python wasn't correctly considered and caused problems with documentation
+        # relying on autodoc (which tries to import the module to auto-document, but fail because of
+        # missing dependencies which are in the virtualenv). Here, we do exactly what is done when
+        # calling the command from bash.
+        cmd = load_entry_point("Sphinx", "console_scripts", "sphinx-build")
+        try:
+            cmd(["sphinx-build", basepath, destpath])
+        except SystemExit:
+            print(
+                "Sphinx called sys.exit(), but we're cancelling it because we don't actually want to exit"
+            )

requirements-extra.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-pytest>=6,<7
+pytest>=5,<6
 flake8
 tox-travis
 black
-pyinstaller>=4.5,<5.0; sys_platform != 'linux'
+pyinstaller>=4.0,<5.0; sys_platform != 'linux'

requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Send2Trash>=1.3.0
-sphinx>=3.0.0
-polib>=1.1.0
+sphinx>=1.2.2
+polib>=1.0.4
 hsaudiotag3k>=1.1.3*
 distro>=1.5.0
-PyQt5 >=5.14.1,<6.0; sys_platform != 'linux'
-pywin32>=228; sys_platform == 'win32'
+PyQt5 >=5.4,<6.0; sys_platform != 'linux'
+pywin32>=200; sys_platform == 'win32'