support sphinx 6

[nicoa]

Context

Some packages are relying on this one to be installed and the pinned dependencies (i.e. the testing pipelines in pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#1097 ) and it would be nice to have version 6 and up.

Please let me know on your opinion wether simply loosening the restriction is fine or additional tests are required.

Proposal

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Tasks and updates

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[zerocewl]

any news?

[nicoa]

Hey @zerocewl , I'm not familiar with this package and got no response on

Please let me know on your opinion wether simply loosening the restriction is fine or additional tests are required.

As there are quite a few votings for this issue, I may put together a quick PR the next days and will see what the maintainers of this repo say.

[zerocewl]

@nicoa

I'm not sure if there is any active maintainer?!?

A PR would be nice, but would it contain any more then the already (not merged) PR #106?

[chrisjsewell]

New myst-parser is released, which will let us test on Sphinx 6 here.

working on it 😉 https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/commits/master

[nicoa]

I guess there are ;-) yes, that PR is actively worked on apparently, you can monitor that one, thanks for pointing out!

[zerocewl]

bump

[bastimeyer]

working on it

With the MyST-Parser 0.19.0 release that has added support for Sphinx 6, is there a chance for an update and new release here as well?
https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/releases/tag/v0.19.0

Thank you very much!

[dbitouze]

As a MyST-Parser and sphinx-design user, I strongly support this FR!

[bastimeyer]

So there's PR #106 which simply tries to bump the version range of Sphinx, but it doesn't update myst-parser and the theme dependencies in the optional-dependencies. All of those dependencies do have recent versions though which support Sphinx 6.

Are there any incompatibilities here, or is bumping the dependencies enough?

[Giddius]

As far as my docs are concerned, just force installing sphinx 6 after installing sphinx-design and then building, did not break anything.

Windows 10-64
Python 3.11

[bastimeyer]

Apparently there was an attempt made to move/update to sphinx-design2 in #123 by @chrisjsewell, but the updated project now lives here:
https://github.com/sphinx-extensions2/sphinx-design2

According to its readme, it's "a fork for local development", but it's still published to PyPI:
https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-design2/

However, the readme of the sphinx-extensions2 GH orga suggests that this is indeed the new location for the project:
https://github.com/sphinx-extensions2

Why the fork if repos can just be moved, with a convenient redirection being added by GitHub on the old location? Why the new PyPI package? The sphinx-design2 readme also contains stuff from the old project.

Is sphinx-design2 actually considered stable and available for public use, @chrisjsewell? It does contain the necessary changes for sphinx 6.

[danieljanes]

@choldgraf, what's your perspective on the comment from @bastimeyer?

It would be great to understand which PyPI package (sphinx_design or sphinx-design2) is more actively maintained to decide which package we should depend on.