Sphinx: Quickstart no longer asks for autodoc

[nralbers]

Describe the bug
According to the quickstart documentation, quickstart will ask if you want to run autodoc. However, the latest version no longer does this.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

sphinx-quickstart

Welcome to the Sphinx 2.1.2 quickstart utility.

Please enter values for the following settings (just press Enter to
accept a default value, if one is given in brackets).

Selected root path: .

You have two options for placing the build directory for Sphinx output.
Either, you use a directory "_build" within the root path, or you separate
"source" and "build" directories within the root path.
> Separate source and build directories (y/n) [n]: y

The project name will occur in several places in the built documentation.
> Project name: Structlog Extensions
> Author name(s): Niels Albers
> Project release []: 0.0.3

If the documents are to be written in a language other than English,
you can select a language here by its language code. Sphinx will then
translate text that it generates into that language.

For a list of supported codes, see
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-language.
> Project language [en]: 

Creating file ./source/conf.py.

Expected behavior
Either: ask for autodoc and configure, as stated in the documentation.
Or: Update the documentation to conform to the new behaviour, and document
how to configure autodoc in the quick start documentation

Environment info

• OS: Linux
• 3.6.0
• Sphinx version: 2.1.2
• Sphinx extensions: sphinx.ext.autodoc

[tk0miya]

Thank you for reporting.
Since 2.0, quickstart does not ask for extensions (see #4148). So our docs are wrong for this case.

[tapaswenipathak]

Hi folks: I will PRing.

[Nerdenator]

I am looking through Google to find a tutorial to learn how to use Sphinx to document a project. Pretty much every single one of them recommends using sphinx-quickstart, and does so using the old set of questions. To me, this is a major, breaking change that is preventing me from using sphinx. I don't suppose there's any way to add in the old questions using a command line flag or some other optional route?

[JacksonWuxs]

I am wondering what is the change between V2.0+ and V1.0+. If the updates are not significant, should I use V1.0+ to fix this problem?

[domdog]

I ran into the same problem.

Would like a command line flag to have access to the old behaviour, so commonly mentioned across the web, or a clear document that describes:

-what is completely setup as a default now.  There is nothing to do with these and they are working in the present setup.
- what is installed but need configuration and a clear example at each point in the process.
- what I can install and clear directions with examples of how to do so.