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SubjectRe: Sphinx version dependencies?
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Markus Heiser wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 20.07.2018, 09:12 -0400 schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o:
> > I'm not entirely sure what's the best approach. Right now I just want
> > to understand --- do I have to make ext4.rst work against one, or many
> > versions of Sphinx? And which version(s) of Sphinx do I need to
> > concern myself with? If that turns out to be an onerous burden, I'm
> > sure I won't be the only person complaining. :-)
>
> In that case ...
>
> > But when I did that, Sphinx had heartburn over the ext4.rst file.
> >
> > ./include/linux/spi/spi.h:373: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
> > /usr/projects/linux/ext4/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ext4.rst:139: ERROR: Malformed table.
> > Column span alignment problem in table line 5.
>
> ... its clear; the table was malformed. A markup error which is not detected
> by older versions of docutils (very special case).

... except that newer verions are A-OK with it. Apparently 1.3.x was
OK with it, and 1.6.x and 1.7.x were ok with it. ***ONLY*** Sphinx
1.4.9 blew up on the "malformed table".

So in this case, Darrick has come up with a patch that is makes it OK
with 1.4.9 without breaking on 1.7.5 --- and obviously, doing
something that makes it broadly portable is the right thing.

I'm asking a larger question, which is moving forward, which is more
important? Make it work with Sphinx 1.4.9? Or making it Sphinx work
with Sphinx 1.7.5?

And should we change Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt to require
something newer, such as Sphinx 1.7.5? And should we require that
Ubuntu 18.04 which is using Sphinx 1.6.8 use a virtualenv and use
download Sphinx 1.6.8?

My understanding that the Sphinx developers make no guarantees that if
we follow some external, version-indepedent spec, that it will work on
Sphinx version N, as well as Sphinx version N+1. (In the ideal world,
if there was such an independent spec for .rst format files, and a
compliant .rst file doesn't work for Sphinx version N, it's a bug, and
we should expect somebody --- perhaps the Distro's --- to backport the
fix from Sphinx version N+1 to Sphinx version N.) E.g., is there an
equivalent for ANSI C 1999 standard for .rst files?

- Ted

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