Re: pgAdmin 4 v4.5 released

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:02 PM Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:

> Re: Dave Page 2019-04-11 <
> CA+OCxoyb3WKj5u+uV+A_4SK_7i15oK4dT01ziDJ5CPma5285zA(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> > > Fwiw, this release broke compatibility with the sphinx version in
> > > Ubuntu xenial (16.04), 1.3.6-2ubuntu1.2.
> >
> > Hmm, that was changed in 4.4. I assume Xenial has an ancient version of
> > Sphinx?
>
> 1.3, as said above.
>

Oh, sorry - I parsed that as part of the Ubuntu version.

>
> > Can a newer version be used for running the build? It doesn't need to be
> > there at runtime.
>
> I'd rather not get into the business of maintaining a sphinx backport.
> Such packages tend to have a gazillion of dependencies for plugins.
>
> I haven't verified the result, are the tables expected to look very
> bad now that I removed the :widths: options? It will be a little bit
> annoying to maintain that patch, but it's not really that bad.
>

The annoying thing is, they're not used at all by the HTML output you're
producing I don't think. They're used by the latex builds like PDF.

Would it make sense to run the doc build in a temporary Python venv that
has the newer Sphinx installed?

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