The time has come to drop support for some truly ancient versions of
sphinx; put in a warning now.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---
This is pretty conservative; I think we could make an honest case for
pushing things forward to 2.4 but ... one step at a time...
I'd also like to think about dropping Python 2, but that's a separate
subject.
Documentation/conf.py | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index ed2b43ec7754..d76270cfa37f 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ if major >= 3:
else:
extensions.append('cdomain')
+ if major == 1 and minor < 7:
+ sys.stderr.write('WARNING: Sphinx 1.7 or greater will be required as of '
+ 'the 5.12 release\n')
# Ensure that autosectionlabel will produce unique names
autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True
--
2.28.0
