Runtime verification of sphinx and jinja2 versions #381
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A possible mid-term solution to #380 - see discussion there for details.
Summary
For numpydoc to continue supporting unmaintained sphinx versions (sphinx<4), some form of check needs to be in place to prevent Jinja2>=3.1 from being used with sphinx<4. numpydoc 1.2.1 has pinned
Jinja2<3.1
, but this is not ideal as it prevents projects that have sphinx>4.0.2 from using the latest Jinja2. One proposed solution is to remove the install requirement and replace it with a runtime environment check which raises a more informative exception message notifying numpydoc users that they are responsible for pinning Jinja2 in their projects if they wish to keep using older sphinx.