Re: [RFC v2 00/38] Improve ABI documentation generation

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Wed Jan 29 2025 - 10:58:47 EST


Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> So, I'm proposing to change the minimal requirements to:
> - Sphinx 3.4.3;
> - Python 3.9
>
> By setting Sphinx minimal version to 3.4.3, we can get rid of all
> Sphinx backward-compatible code.

That's certainly a nice thought.

With regard to Python ... are all reasonable distributions at 3.9 at
least? CentOS 9 seems to be there, and Debian beyond it. So probably
that is a reasonable floor to set?

jon