Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Daniel Holbach wrote: > The general plan looks like this: > 1. decide on a toolkit I would highly suggest that you give a try to publican. It's already available in Ubuntu and I co-maintain it in Debian. It's docbook based but it generates good looking documentation, an

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:06 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > I had a look at sphinx and I'm quite happy with it. Not only is it > used > by lots of python projects already, but also is it very easy to write > in > ReStructured text, and the output looks great too. Consider formats which support incl

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 17:15 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > On 13.12.2010 16:26, Martin Owens wrote: > > Consider formats which support including svg diagrams directly, we'd > > like diagrams to be just as translatable as body text and still easy > > enough to make and maintain. > > Good point. I h

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
On 13.12.2010 16:26, Martin Owens wrote: > Consider formats which support including svg diagrams directly, we'd > like diagrams to be just as translatable as body text and still easy > enough to make and maintain. Good point. I haven't looked into this yet, but will add it to my list. Have a grea

Sphinx 1.1 upgrade build failures (Was: Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide)

2010-12-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
On 13.12.2010 12:13, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 13.12.2010 11:06, Daniel Holbach wrote: >> * Sphinx: >>- PRO: ReStructured text >>- PRO: variety of output formats (.html, single .html, pdf, epub, >> .txt, etc.) >>- PRO: supports gettext infrastructure >>- CON: only suppo

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Matthias Klose
On 13.12.2010 11:06, Daniel Holbach wrote: > * Sphinx: >- PRO: ReStructured text >- PRO: variety of output formats (.html, single .html, pdf, epub, > .txt, etc.) >- PRO: supports gettext infrastructure >- CON: only supports gettext in 1.1 (trunk), we're on 1.0 in natty n

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
On 13.12.2010 11:06, Daniel Holbach wrote: > * Sphinx: > - PRO: ReStructured text > - PRO: variety of output formats (.html, single .html, pdf, epub, > .txt, etc.) > - PRO: supports gettext infrastructure > - CON: only supports gettext in 1.1 (trunk), we're on 1.0 in natty now >

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Nigel Babu
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello everybody, > > At UDS we talked about "Revamping the Packaging Guide" and figured out a > plan ([1], [2]) that we feel is realistic and allows us to fix and > update the Packaging Guide over time. > &g

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the first mail was a summary of the discussion so far. Below my own thoughts. On 13.12.2010 11:06, Daniel Holbach wrote: > The general plan looks like this: > 1. decide on a toolkit > 2. review old documentation (reusability, etc. - [3] and [4] might be > helpful there) >

Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, At UDS we talked about "Revamping the Packaging Guide" and figured out a plan ([1], [2]) that we feel is realistic and allows us to fix and update the Packaging Guide over time. The main problems we want to solve are: - move away from unmaintainable wiki guides -