[docs] Which version of sphinx?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe tshepang at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 01:27:48 CEST 2011


On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 20:40 +0000, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hello Tshepang,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 23:56, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any reason Sphinx version was specified here:
> > http://docs.python.org/dev/documenting/building.html?
> 
> I don't have that clear your question. Are you asking why the version
> is explict in this command:
> 
> svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Sphinx-0.6.5/sphinx tools/sphinx
> 
> or in some other place? can you please be a bit more specific (either
> in what you think is wrong and how you'd fix it)?

Sorry for not being too clear. I meant, why is that specific version
required? Why doesn't the link just point to trunk (or tip, in Mercurial
speak)? I asked because I was looking at the doc, wanting to improve it.
I imagined it could stem from the fear that later versions could break
the doc build.



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