Re: [PATCH 1/2] Python: bump minimum sphinx version to 3.4.3

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 2:06 PM John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2024, 4:00 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 7/2/24 21:59, John Snow wrote:
>> > With RHEL 8 support retired (It's been two years today since RHEL 9
>> > came out), our very oldest build platform version of Sphinx is now
>> > 3.4.3; and keeping backwards compatibility for versions as old as v1.6
>> > when using domain extensions is a lot of work we don't need to do.
>>
>> Technically that's unrelated: thanks to your venv work, :) builds on
>> RHEL 8 / CentOS Stream 8 do not pick the platform Sphinx, because it
>> runs under Python 3.6.  Therefore the version included in RHEL 8 does
>> not matter for picking the minimum supported Sphinx version.
>
> I think I can't mandate 4.x because of RHEL 9 builds though, and offline 
> requirements.

Offline requirements are not a problem; on RHEL 8 you just have to
install with pip in order to build docs offline. But yes, RHEL 9 is
still using platform Python and therefore 3.4.3 remains the limit even
after we stop supporting bullseye.

Paolo