On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 2:06 PM John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024, 4:00 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@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
