Re: [PATCH v4] sphinx: adopt kernel readthedoc theme

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 11:29, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> The theme is pre-packaged for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, which gives me
> confidence for Linux distros in general.
>
> BSD / macOS / Windows, who knows ?

Mmm, good point. Marc-André's the one who's been doing the work
here, so I'm happy to leave it up to him if he thinks retaining
the fallback is the best approach.

> We could check for rtd theme in meson, and disable the docs build
> if missing.

If you make the docs/conf.py raise an error if the theme is missing,
then the existing docs/meson.build "does sphinx work?" test will
disable the docs build. (You would want to improve the error message
to note that the problem might be missing theme, though.)

thanks
-- PMM