[GitHub] [arrow-cookbook] toddfarmer commented on a diff in pull request #193: Toddfarmer/contributing java dependencies

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toddfarmer commented on code in PR #193:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-cookbook/pull/193#discussion_r868536158


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java/CONTRIBUTING.rst:
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@@ -1,13 +1,27 @@
 Building the Java Cookbook
 =========================
-
 The Java cookbook uses the Sphinx documentation system.
 
-Running ``make java`` from the cookbook root directory (the one where
-the ``README.rst`` exists) will install all necessary dependencies
-and will compile the cookbook to HTML.
+Dependencies
+-------------------------
+The following are required to successfully build the Java cookbook:
+
+Python
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+The cookbook build tooling depends upon Python, and the ability to
+install needed packages via pip, to build the Java cookbook.  The
+dependency packages managed via pip by build scripts are found at
+`requirements.txt <requirements.txt>`_.
+
+sphinx-build
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Building the Java cookbook requires Sphinx build tools:
 
-For java cookbook we are running these with Java Shell tool -
+`sphinx-build <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/man/sphinx-build.html>`_

Review Comment:
   It was not for me.  I had to separately perform `sudo apt install sphinx-build` on my new laptop.



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