sphinxdocs: add docs; support sources from other directories (#2128)

Documents how to use Sphinx syntax when writing docs. There's a variety
of features the `sphinx_bzl` plugin enables, but without docs, they're
somewhat hard to discover and figure out how to use.

Because sphinxdocs is almost entirely separate, adding its docs under
`//sphinxdocs/docs` is a more natural fit. Unfortunately, this became
very verbose, repetitive, and tedious, for two reasons:
1. The only way `sphinx_docs` could accept files from other directories
was using the `rename_srcs` arg and manually renaming files one-by-one.
2. Similarly, `sphinx_stardocs` required a one-by-one mapping of each
bzl file to its output file, which then had to be repeated in
`rename_srcs`.

To fix (1), the `sphinx_docs.deps` attribute and `sphinx_docs_library`
rule are added. The library targets collect files, and `sphinx_docs`
moves then into the final Sphinx sources directory.

To fix (2), the `sphinx_stardoc.srcs` attribute is added, which accepts
`bzl_library` targets. I noticed that, in almost all cases, the output
name was simply the input name with the `.md` extension, so the rule now
does that by default. For special cases, the `sphinx_stardoc` (singular)
rule can be called directly.

Also:
* Adds `bzl:rule` as a cross reference lookup role
* Removes some defunct stuff relating to the stardoc template files that
aren't used anymore.
* Disables warnings from the autosectionlabel extension. These were
spamming warnings because CHANGELOG.md has many headers with the same
name.
* Adds more entries to bazel inventory (all of native and ctx)
24 files changed
tree: ccc6b7d78c99ce299f8203aee412ddc8dfc1bb80
  1. .bazelci/
  2. .bcr/
  3. .ci/
  4. .github/
  5. docs/
  6. examples/
  7. gazelle/
  8. python/
  9. sphinxdocs/
  10. tests/
  11. third_party/
  12. tools/
  13. .bazelignore
  14. .bazelrc
  15. .bazelversion
  16. .git-blame-ignore-revs
  17. .gitattributes
  18. .gitignore
  19. .pre-commit-config.yaml
  20. .readthedocs.yml
  21. addlicense.sh
  22. AUTHORS
  23. BUILD.bazel
  24. BZLMOD_SUPPORT.md
  25. CHANGELOG.md
  26. CONTRIBUTING.md
  27. CONTRIBUTORS
  28. DEVELOPING.md
  29. internal_deps.bzl
  30. internal_setup.bzl
  31. LICENSE
  32. MODULE.bazel
  33. README.md
  34. version.bzl
  35. WORKSPACE
  36. WORKSPACE.bzlmod
README.md

Python Rules for Bazel

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Overview

This repository is the home of the core Python rules -- py_library, py_binary, py_test, py_proto_library, and related symbols that provide the basis for Python support in Bazel. It also contains package installation rules for integrating with PyPI and other indices.

Documentation for rules_python is at https://rules-python.readthedocs.io and in the Bazel Build Encyclopedia.

Examples live in the examples directory.

The core rules are stable. Their implementation is subject to Bazel's backward compatibility policy. This repository aims to follow semantic versioning.

The Bazel community maintains this repository. Neither Google nor the Bazel team provides support for the code. However, this repository is part of the test suite used to vet new Bazel releases. See How to contribute page for information on our development workflow.

Documentation

For detailed documentation, see https://rules-python.readthedocs.io

Bzlmod support

  • Status: Beta
  • Full Feature Parity: No

See Bzlmod support for more details.