I thought I would post a generally help tip that Ian Bicking helped me
with. I couldn't figure out why my ReST formatted long_description
field would not get converted to HTML when I registered my egg with
the cheeseshop:
python setup.py register
It turns out I had a minor error in my ReST
I would be in favor of a warning message generated by PyPI when a
long_description
field is not reST compliant. I don't think it is a client-side job.
In any case you can test your long_description field like this:
$ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py --strict > /dev/null
If someth
+1
I eventually found it just the way you describe Tarek, and with Ian's
suggestion.
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would be in favor of a warning message generated by PyPI when a
> long_description
> field is not reST compliant. I don't think it is a c
