Over on the enthought-dev mailing list we're having a bit of a discussion on what the best way to distribute documenation and examples is for projects that we distribute binary eggs for. The general consensus is that it would be very nice indeed if there was a way to generate a tarball, or platform install, of just documentation and examples so that people wouldn't need to download a full, presumably significantly larger, source tarball. Another option would be that eggs included the documentation and examples and that, during the installation of the egg, those docs and examples were relocated to a common location (outside of the zip) to make access by users more convenient. This latter idea is similar to how Ruby Gems deal with docs.
I don't claim to be a distutils or setuptools guru, so it shouldn't be too surprising that I can't seem to find anything about a setuptools or distutils command to do either of these. Am I missing something? If not, does it seem like something that might be worthy of putting into setuptools? -- Dave _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
