Use uuid as a requirement in the setup.py and mention it in the documentation for Python 2.4

doc/intro.rst

@@ -50,10 +50,14 @@ docutils_ and Jinja2_ libraries.  Sphinx should work with docutils version 0.5
 or some (not broken) SVN trunk snapshot.  If you like to have source code
 highlighting support, you must also install the Pygments_ library.
 
+If you use **Python 2.4** you also need uuid_.
+
 .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html
 .. _docutils: http://docutils.sf.net/
 .. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/
 .. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
+.. The given homepage is only a directory listing so I'm using the pypi site.
+.. _uuid: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/uuid/
 
 
 Usage

setup.py

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ A development egg can be found `here
 <http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/get/tip.gz#egg=Sphinx-dev>`_.
 '''
 
-requires = ['Pygments>=0.8', 'Jinja2>=2.2', 'docutils>=0.5']
+requires = ['Pygments>=0.8', 'Jinja2>=2.2', 'docutils>=0.5', 'uuid>=1.30']
 
 if sys.version_info < (2, 4):
     print('ERROR: Sphinx requires at least Python 2.4 to run.')
@@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ if sys.version_info < (2, 5):
     except:
         pass
     else:
-        del requires[-1]
+        del requires[-2]
+elif sys.version_info >= (2, 5):
+    # An uuid module has been added to the stdlib in 2.5
+    del requires[-1]
 
 
 # Provide a "compile_catalog" command that also creates the translated