Am 06.09.2016 um 15:34 schrieb Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com>:

> On Tue, 06 Sep 2016, Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:29:30 +0200
>> Markus Heiser <markus.hei...@darmarit.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> +            if major >= 1 and minor < 4:
>>> +                # indexnode's tuple changed in 1.4
>>> +                # 
>>> https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/commit/e6a5a3a92e938fcd75866b4227db9e0524d58f7c
>>> +                self.indexnode['entries'].append(
>>> +                    ('single', indextext, targetname, ''))
>>> +            else:
>>> +                self.indexnode['entries'].append(
>>> +                    ('single', indextext, targetname, '', None))
>> 
>> So this doesn't seem right.  We'll get the four-entry tuple behavior with
>> 1.3 and the five-entry behavior with 1.4...but what happens when 2.0
>> comes out?
>> 
>> Did you want maybe:
>> 
>>      if major == 1 and minor < 4:
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> (That will fail on 0.x, but we've already stated that we don't support
>> below 1.2).
> 
> Is there a way to check the number of entries expected in the tuples
> instead of trying to match the version?

Sadly not, the dissection of the tuple is spread around the source :(

Sphinx has some more of these tuples with fixed length (remember
conf.py, the latex_documents settings) where IMHO hash/value pairs
(dicts) are more suitable.

-- Markus --
> BR,
> Jani.
> -- 
> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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