astropy/astropy — pull request #935 by mdboom (2013-04-03 15:29:51+00:00)
Title: Docs won't build on Sphinx 1.2b1 due to WCSBase

This problem was discussed some in #934 and #908.

Sphinx recently put out v1.2 beta 1 on PyPI - this was killing the travis build, so you can see the error for this in e.g. https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/5958983/log.txt .

The underlying problem is twofold: First, `WCSBase` is not picklable. Sphinx 1.2b1 tries to pickle it where 1.1.3 did not, and that leads to this failure. The second part is why Sphinx 1.2 is pickling `WCSBase` at all. I can't see anything in the sphinx 1.2 changelog that would cause this, so I posted to the sphinx mailing list asking about it (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/sphinx-users/kpMScxmeMMc).

@mdboom - do you have any thoughts here? A workaround might be to make `WCSBase` support pickling, although I'm not sure how much work that would be.