Merge pull request #317 from NLeSC/312-create-sphinx-build-action

#312 - adding sphinx build action

.github/workflows/sphinx_build.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: documentation
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - main
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+    - main
+
+jobs:
+  docs:
+    name: Build documentation
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.10'
+
+        # this action updates pip, setuptools, and wheel before install
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+          pip install .[publishing]
+
+      - name: Trigger Sphinx build
+        run: |
+          cd docs
+          make html
+

setup.py

@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ def read(fname):
                     "publishing": [
                         "build",
                         "twine",
-                        "wheel"
+                        "wheel",
+                        "sphinx",
+                        "sphinx-rtd-theme"
                     ]
     }
 )