Re: [RFC 0/6] Raise the bar with regards to Python and Sphinx requirements

Donald Hunter
2025-01-30T11:24:06Z

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:

> This series comes after https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/87a5b96296.fsf@trenco.lwn.net/T/#t
> It increases the minimal requirements for Sphinx and Python.
>
> Sphinx release dates:
>
> Release 2.4.0 (released Feb 09, 2020)
> Release 2.4.4 (released Mar 05, 2020) (current minimal requirement)
> Release 3.4.0 (released Dec 20, 2020)
> Release 3.4.3 (released Jan 08, 2021)
>
> (https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes/index.html)

It's worth mentioning here that my fix for the C performance regression
landed in Sphinx 7.4.0. All versions from 3.0.0 to 7.3.x are much slower
for building the kernel docs. See #12162 here: