On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Richard Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Mark Sienkiewicz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I suggest: >> >> - Generate a link if there is documentation > > Right, we do this already. > > >> - Generate the text "No documentation" in the place where the link would be >> if there is no documentation. > > I don't like this. The documentation space on pypi is offered as a > space for projects that's convenient or where they otherwise wouldn't > be able to host their own documentation website. It's not something I > wish to force people to use (just like package upload isn't something > we force people to do), and stating "no documentation" would be a bit > of a lie in a bunch of cases. Even with additional clarifying wording > it's still a negative statement that I don't think we need to make.
What about this: 1) have some sort of "disabled" link placeholder so the documentation link is always there, but not an attractive nuisance leading to a dead end when there are no docs available and 2) let project owners provide an alternative target for the link if they host their documentation elsewhere. -- Benji York _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
