[Numpy-discussion] missing doc dir in the official tarball

[Ondrej Certik]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:35 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
>> 2008/12/20 Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz>:
>>> So we thought with Stefan that maybe a simpler solution is just to fix
>>> the ./setup sdist (or how you create the tarball in numpy) to include
>>> documentation and be done with it.
>>
>> I think releases should either include the Sphinx documentation or,
>> alternatively, we should provide a separate tar-ball for the docs
>> along with every release.
>
> How difficult would it be to generate the doc ? I have not followed in
> detail what happened recently on that front. Is sphinx + sphinx ext
> the only necessary additional tools ?

Just to make it clear -- I think the docs should not be generated in
the tarball -- only the sources should be there.

The html (and/or pdf) docs will be generated at the package build.

Ondrej