On 28 February 2010 23:03, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Michael Foord <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > On 28 February 2010 22:14, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> At 10:03 PM 2/28/2010 +0100, Jean Daniel wrote: > >>> > >>> Can this be simpler? > >> > >> Yes. Don't install docs with your package. People who want them > >> installed locally can just download your source install or use > easy_install > >> -e. > >> > >> Also, if your module is popular enough that people make Linux system > >> packages for it, they will make sure the docs get put in a blessed > install > >> location. Python doesn't currently have a blessed install location for > >> documentation, though perhaps it *should* have one in distutils2. > > > > How to include documentation in a package is a common question, so it > would > > be great if distutils2 could deal with this issue. > > As a matter of fact, we've worked on this during the sprints, and are > preparing a proposal > that will let people define a place for doc (and other stuff) and let > the OS packager decide where > it lands (with defaults per OS). > > I'll post if there when its ready, hopefully soon > That sounds great. Michael > > Tarek > -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/
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