Much better fix for #479 using tox

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_docs.py b/tests/test_docs.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 58c6d973..00000000
--- a/tests/test_docs.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# coding=utf-8
-"""
-Test the build of the sphinx documentation
-
-Released under MIT license, see LICENSE file
-"""
-import os
-
-import pytest
-
-from sphinx.application import Sphinx
-
-DOCS_SRCDIR = 'docs'
-DOCS_BUILDDIR = os.path.join('docs', '_build')
-DOCS_TREEDIR = os.path.join(DOCS_BUILDDIR, 'doctrees')
-
-def test_html_documentation():
-    # if you want really strict checking, set warningiserror=True
-    docs = Sphinx(DOCS_SRCDIR,
-                  DOCS_SRCDIR,
-                  DOCS_BUILDDIR,
-                  DOCS_TREEDIR,
-                  buildername='html',
-                  warningiserror=False,
-    )
-    # this throws exceptions for errors, which pytest then
-    # treats as a failure
-    docs.build(force_all=True)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index a5e91d46..4250e2d4 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ passenv = CI TRAVIS TRAVIS_* APPVEYOR*
 setenv =
     PYTHONPATH={toxinidir}
 
+[testenv:docs]
+basepython = python3.7
+changedir = docs
+extras = dev
+commands = sphinx-build -b html -d {envtmpdir}/doctrees . {envtmpdir}/html
+
 [testenv:py34]
 deps =
   codecov