On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> 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
>
In that case, I suggest leaving the pallets projects to me as I've done a
good chunk of the work already and maybe tackle some of the other sphinx
consumers in parallel?
I looked at updating sphinx too and honestly it looks more difficult than
updating numpy... I'll be glad for someone else to tackle that one. :-)
