From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Sphinx version dependencies?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:10:20 -0700
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 06:58:57PM +0200, Markus Heiser wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 20.07.2018, 09:44 -0700 schrieb Darrick J. Wong:
> > and now I'm just confused since 16.04 has the same version of docutils
> > and an older sphinx and runs fine; but 18.04 has newer docutils and
> > newer sphinx and runs fine.
> 
> Same here .. I'am completely confused by distros etc. .. I will never be able to
> control that. Thats why I recommend the virtualenv workflow (as I wrote Christoph):

Well yes, but it's the virtualenv workflow that produced build errors
for Ted; that's what would seem to need fixing?

--D

> $ sudo apt install python3-virtualenv
> 
> To setup up a environment for building htmldocs:
> 
> $ python3 -m virtualenv py3env
> $ ./py3env/bin/pip install -r ./Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt
> 
> To build htmldocs with:
> 
>  $ SPHINXBUILD=./py3env/bin/sphinx-build make htmldocs
> 
> If the env is no longer needed:
> 
>  $ rm -r py3env
> 
> Am Freitag, den 20.07.2018, 09:44 -0700 schrieb Darrick J. Wong:
> > Yes.  This makes writing broadly portable markup difficult -- originally
> > I did not take the '=' all the way to the right edge of the table
> > because I saw that last example in the above document and assumed that
> > it wasn't necessary to extend the '=' all the way to the right edge.
> > Neither Ubuntu system choked on it, so is this a bug in upstream?  Some
> > strange patch added by the distro?  Something that ended up in the
> > python wheel?  Or a bug in the spec?
> 
> I guess in the version history of docutils ;) .. use workflow above to escape
> from distro chaos. Even missing '=' will be OK.
> 
> -- Markus --