Those days, it is hard to install a virtual env that would build docs with Sphinx 3.4.3, as even python 3.13 is not compatible anymore with it. /usr/bin/python3.9 -m venv sphinx_3.4.3 . sphinx_3.4.3/bin/activate pip install -r Documentation/sphinx/min_requirements.txt Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/sphinx/min_requirements.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/sphinx/min_requirements.txt diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst index 5a91df105141..607589592bfb 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst @@ -131,6 +131,29 @@ It supports two optional parameters: ``--no-virtualenv`` Use OS packaging for Sphinx instead of Python virtual environment. +Installing Sphinx Minimal Version +--------------------------------- + +When changing Sphinx build system, it is important to ensure that +the minimal version will still be supported. Nowadays, it is +becoming harder to do that on modern distributions, as it is not +possible to install with Python 3.13 and above. + +Testing with the lowest supported Python version as defined at +Documentation/process/changes.rst can be done by creating +a venv with it with, and install minimal requirements with:: + + /usr/bin/python3.9 -m venv sphinx_min + . sphinx_min/bin/activate + pip install -r Documentation/sphinx/min_requirements.txt + +A more comprehensive test can be done by using: + + scripts/test_doc_build.py + +Such script create one Python venv per supported version, +optionally building documentation for a range of Sphinx versions. + Sphinx Build ============ diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/min_requirements.txt b/Documentation/sphinx/min_requirements.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..52d9f27010e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/min_requirements.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +alabaster >=0.7,<0.8 +docutils>=0.15,<0.18 +jinja2>=2.3,<3.1 +PyYAML>=5.1,<6.1 +Sphinx==3.4.3 +sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.2 +sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.1 +sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==1.0.3 +sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.2 +sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.4 -- 2.49.0
