Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/38] Improve ABI documentation generation

From: Jonathan Corbet <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:58:13 -0700

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email-masked]> writes:

> So, I'm proposing to change the minimal requirements to:
> 	- Sphinx 3.4.3;
> 	- Python 3.9
>
> By setting Sphinx minimal version to 3.4.3, we can get rid of all
> Sphinx backward-compatible code.

That's certainly a nice thought.

With regard to Python ... are all reasonable distributions at 3.9 at
least?  CentOS 9 seems to be there, and Debian beyond it.  So probably
that is a reasonable floor to set?

jon