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-rw-r--r--docs/setuptools.txt7
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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index e2b7874b..3d90f534 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ CHANGES
0.6.29
------
+* If Sphinx is installed, the `upload_docs` command now runs `build_sphinx`
+ to produce uploadable documentation.
+* Issue #326: `upload_docs` provided mangled auth credentials under Python 3.
* Issue #320: Fix check for "createable" in distribute_setup.py.
* Issue #305: Remove a warning that was triggered during normal operations.
* Issue #311: Print metadata in UTF-8 independent of platform.
diff --git a/docs/setuptools.txt b/docs/setuptools.txt
index 31eedcb1..81c3aae3 100644
--- a/docs/setuptools.txt
+++ b/docs/setuptools.txt
@@ -2423,7 +2423,12 @@ command::
python setup.py upload_docs --upload-dir=docs/build/html
-As with any other ``setuptools`` based command, you can define useful
+If no ``--upload-dir`` is given, ``upload_docs`` will attempt to run the
+``build_sphinx`` command to generate uploadable documentation.
+For the command to become available, `Sphinx <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>`_
+must be installed in the same environment as distribute.
+
+As with other ``setuptools``-based commands, you can define useful
defaults in the ``setup.cfg`` of your Python project, e.g.:
.. code-block:: ini