BUG: Incompatibility with sphinx-dev

[bsipocz]

At some point this became incompatible with sphinx-dev.

Also, now quite a few versions between 6.1 and sphinx-dev are not included in the text matrix, so it would be nice to add those, too.

[pllim]

I think @ayshih took care of this in #172

[bsipocz]

Do add the new versions to the matrix, too, please.

[ayshih]

Yeah, the bug is fixed by 62ba0ae

Regarding the test matrix, I'll point out that the builds intended to test against Sphinx 2.4 and 3.5 don't actually manage to install those versions, presumably because setup.cfg specifies Sphinx>=4. Those builds should be removed.

[ayshih]

Yeah, the bug is fixed by 62ba0ae

Hmm, although one bug was fixed, there's something else that's still a problem (seemingly in pydata-sphinx-theme) with the latest Sphinx.

[ayshih]

Ah, a PR merged today (sphinx-doc/sphinx#11565) renamed a method called by pydata-sphinx-theme from public to private.

[pllim]

Oh no... 😱

[pllim]

I have alerted pydata-sphinx-theme on their Discord but not sure what else we can do here. Either sphinx-dev reverts the breaking change or the theme has to adapt. 😢

[ayshih]

Heh, I created pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#1404

[pllim]

Maybe it is also time to drop Python 3.7?

[bsipocz]

Maybe do a release and then drop it? (That's what I'm planning to do elsewhere)

[bsipocz]

This compatibility issue is now addressed, and separate issues have been opened about the other things that came up during the discussion. Thanks @ayshih for the fix.