Re: Sphinx version dependencies?

[Markus Heiser]

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).

In general I recommend to install an up-to-date Sphinx-doc in a virtualenv .. this
is what I do in my projects ... and where I haven't seen those version problems ;)

If we have errors downward we have to handle them. The main thing is the markup
is correct.

  -- Markus --