Re: [PATCH] docs/conf.py: Remove usage of distutils

[Thomas Huth]

On 04/03/2024 11.56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 09:36, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The macOS jobs in our CI recently started failing, complaining that
> > the distutils module is not available anymore. And indeed, according to
> > https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/ it's been deprecated since a while
> > and now likely got removed in recent Python versions.
> >
> > Fortunately, we only use it for a version check via LooseVersion here
> > which we don't really need anymore: All distros ship newer versions of
> > Sphinx now (see https://repology.org/project/python:sphinx/versions -
> > the oldest one is 0.6.6 on CentOS 6!), so we can simply drop the version
> > check now.
>
> This code isn't checking the Sphinx version (we do that via the
> setting of needs_sphinx, current minimum 1.6), but the
> sphinx-rtd-theme version, which is independent of Sphinx's
> version numbering scheme.

Oops, sorry for mixing that up!

> I get timeouts trying to connect to repology.org, so can't check:
> do distros all ship new enough versions of sphinx-rtd-theme yet?

Using my shell script to query repology, I get:

centos_stream_8: 0.3.1
centos_stream_9: 0.5.1
fedora_37: 1.0.0
fedora_38: 1.1.1
fedora_39: 1.2.2
fedora_rawhide: 2.0.0
freebsd: 1.0.0
haikuports_master: 1.2.1
openbsd: 1.2.2
opensuse_leap_15_5: 0.5.1
pkgsrc_current: 2.0.0

debian_11: 0.5.1
debian_12: 1.2.0
debian_13: 2.0.0
ubuntu_20_04: 0.4.3
ubuntu_22_04: 1.0.0
ubuntu_23_04: 1.2.0
ubuntu_23_10: 1.3.0
ubuntu_24_04: 2.0.0

So CentOS Stream 8 is too old ... but didn't we stop supporting the distro 
Sphinx there anyway since we switched to the python venv stuff last year?

 Thomas