On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 10:21:46PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> > So www/py-itsdangerous just uses sphinx-build to build its documentation.
> > It doesn't use py-sphinx as a library. This patch shifts it to use
> > only the python3 FLAVOR of py-sphinx.

> Can you say more about the motivation to do this?

> Is it to be able to update py-sphinx to a more current version? or is 
> there a different reason this is useful to do?

It's mainly because recent versions of py-sphinx are python3-only and
we've been paralyzed in limbo because we've worried whether or not
dependent ports used it as a library, or a binary, so I'm looking into
all the ports.

> as an aside, i did do some local updates for the pallets projects (click, 
> flask, itsdangerous, jinja, werkzeug). perhaps I should finish the testing 
> and send them through... 

Sure. I know folks have wanted a werkzeug update for a while but it's not
an easy update. (Probably nothing compared to the numpy/scipy/etc. tangle
you handled though).

--Kurt

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