On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Vinay Sajip <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com (http://gmail.com)> writes: > > > > > > Packages.python.org (http://Packages.python.org) support any HTML, I > > > think, right? > > > > > > That said, is anyone using it without with Sphinx? > > > > That's not the only difference: it also requires that your project be in a > > public Mercurial or Git repository that RTD can pull from. For almost all > > cases, > > this is fine - but for me, for at least one project, I can't use RTD. That's > > because the project (python-gnupg) doesn't have its own repository, it's > > part of > > a larger repository that can't be public. The project is open source and I > > could > > of course pull it into a separate repository, but I would lose the history > > without doing a bit of work to try and keep it. I may well undertake this at > > some point, but until then, RTD is not usable for that project. And so it > > may be > > for other projects too, but for different reasons. > > > > While I find the RTD integration with DVCS very convenient, I like the fact > > about packages.python.org (http://packages.python.org) that you can just > > upload a directory of documentation, > > and there is distutils support for this. If we were to lose > > packages.python.org (http://packages.python.org) > > in favour of RTD, then unless RTD accepted HTML bundles like > > packages.python.org (http://packages.python.org) > > does, distutils/Distribute/setuptools would presumably break when one tried > > to > > do an upload_doc. > > > > So all-in-all, if we marget packages.p.o. and RTD somehow, then the > functionality of RTD must be enhanced, which may not be what the RTD > people want? I am sure I can talk to the maintainers (we're friends) and if anything, happily pay them for the support we need. _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
