Sphinx 7 support

[LecrisUT]

Cannot install testing suite because of dependency hell. Any advice on this? See my fork PR https://github.com/LecrisUT/sphinx-book-theme/pull/1. Any ways to drop myst-nb and sphinx_thebe testing requirement? It is hell to try and detangle their testing requirements.

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[PhilipVinc]

myst-nb actually supports sphinx 7, we simply need the maintainers to tag a new release...

[LecrisUT]

Indeed, you can see the author there :D https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-NB/pull/524. Right now Sphinx-thebe is the hold-up https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-thebe/pull/67. I don't know how to make a good testing suite there to decouple it from sphinx-book-theme which otherwise creates a cyclic dependency issue.

[Eutropios]

Is there any word on this being resolved?

[LecrisUT]

If we can yolo both this and sphinx-thebe to get rid of the silly cyclic dependency the CIs will then be back running properly and we can pick up from there. @choldgraf any thoughts?

[choldgraf]

I've just made a release of sphinx-thebe to unblock this on the version pinning issue:

https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-thebe/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Myst NB also has a release candidate out (1.0.0rc0) that removes the sphinx pinning issue there too

Sorry for the slowness - I or @agoose77 can try to help provide review to get this over the finish line if @LecrisUT has cycles to get the tests passing

[LecrisUT]

Ok, I'll get the CIs back and running, and mark some of them as experimental if needed, then we can open new PRs to de-mark the experimental. Sounds good?

Btw, what are your thoughts on making some of the CIs more templetize (or even importable) to ve consistent across each other. I can write a mock-up over here and then have them moved to a new repo maintained more regularly under executablebooks?

[choldgraf]

For now I'd recommend just taking the minimal actions and complexity needed to support the latest Sphinx and be reasonably certain we aren't introducing obvious regressions. Improving broader infrastructure sounds good but like it might add a lot of extra work to getting this unblocked. Right now we are extremely heavily limited in maintainer capacity...

[LecrisUT]

@choldgraf Ok, for now here is some minimal updates, with a few fixed pytests. The currently failing ones seem trivial, just need to update the regression test files for different versions.

The windows CI does not work in how I wrote it. Can you help with that? I will mark it experimental for the time-being

Sorry a bit slow to push commits because pre-commit is having trouble updating on my side

[LecrisUT]

All ready on this PR, might add some CI improvements in another PR. The only one I don't understand is the windows one :(. Should be fine for at least a pre-release tag, since myst-nb is also gated as pre-release?

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[Eutropios]

Thank you both for the hard work! @LecrisUT @choldgraf