Re: bypass sphinx conf.py from CLI

On 2022-02-02 20:49:05 +0000 (+0000), Stone, Ronald wrote:

The StarlingX docs team is implementing the default sphinxcontrib.spelling spelling extension for use from tox via a virtualenv set up for this purpose. We do not want sphinxcontrib.spelling loaded into other tox jobs that won't use it. This means that it cannot be loaded from the standard conf.py. Instead I am bypassing conf.py and setting parameters from the sphinx-build command in the appropriate tox job:

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Have you considered creating a separate doc/source/conf-spelling.py and passing that via sphinx-build's -c option instead?