ANN: HappyDoc 2.0.1

[Barry Drake]

Doug,
Thank you for the fast response.  HappyDoc is working great.  I'll be
using it heavily for my documentation.

Barry Drake

Doug Hellmann <doug at hellfly.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1012913477.7851.python-list at python.org>...
> Announcing the latest version of HappyDoc, a Python documentation extraction 
> tool.
> 
>   HappyDoc is a tool for extracting documentation from Python source
>   code.  It differs from other such applications by the fact that it
>   uses the parse tree for a module to derive the information used in
>   its output, rather that importing the module directly.  This allows
>   the user to generate documentation for modules which need special
>   context to be imported.
> 
>   More details are available on the HappyDoc home page at
>   http://happydoc.sourceforge.net.
> 
>   !!! NOTICE !!!
> 
>     Before installing HappyDoc 2.0+, any version earlier than 2.0 must
>     be removed.  This includes the file 'happydoc.pth' and directory
>     'happydoc' in site-packages, as well as the executable 'happydoc'
>     in the 'bin' directory.
> 
>   Version 2.0.1 -- 
> 
>     The primary reason for this release is to resolve several bugs
>     which prevented Win32 support from working properly.  Support for
>     Win32 operating systems should now be restored.
> 
>     - **New Features**
> 
>       - Added limited support for CGI programs by expanding the docset
>         processing to look for files ending in '.cgi' as well as
>         '.py'.
> 
>     - **Bug Fixes**
> 
>       - Resolved defect #505456 and 498204, a problem with
>         'happydocwin.py' that prevented it from working properly on
>         Win32 systems.
> 
>       - Resolved defect #501240 so that path handling under Win32
>         systems works properly and HappyDoc can generate output.  
> 
>       - Resolved defect #505188 so that using the '-o' option will
>         properly send output to stdout.
> 
>     - **Other Changes**
> 
>       - Added more unit tests for formatters, especially
>         'fileformatterbase.py' and 'formatter_HTMLFile.py'.
> 
>       - Updated the StructuredTextNG docstring converter so that if an
>         exception is generated during parsing of the ST, we fall back
>         to ClassicStructuredText.  The two syntaxes appear to be
>         incompatible, and this should protect backwards compatibility
>         for most users.
> 
> 
> Download
> 
>   Download the latest version of HappyDoc from the home page on
>   SourceForge:
> 
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/happydoc