[Distutils] restructured text formatting not present in generated MS Windows binary installer

[Thomas Heller]

Jim Vickroy schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been unsuccessful in using restructured text formatting tags in 
> the long_description parameter for the distutils.core.setup function.
> 
> When the attached "setup" script (see GOES-13-SXI-processor-installer.py 
> attachment) is run from the command line as:
> 
>  > GOES-13-SXI-processor-installer.py clean bdist_wininst --title="FITS 
> Images Processor" --bitmap=GOES-13-SXI-Processor.bmp
> 
> the first panel of the generated win32 installer has no boldface text 
> (see installer.png attachment)
> 
> When I feed the long_description text to docutils/tools/rst2html.py, the 
> generated html is as expected.
> 
> My setup is:
> 
> Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import docutils
>  >>> docutils.__version__
> '0.5'
>  >>>
> 
> on a MS Windows XP machine running service pack 2.
> 
> I am a new user of both distutils and docutils so any thoughts on what I 
> am doing incorrectly would be appreciated.

The bdist_wininst installer can only display pure text, it cannot render HTML
or some other format.  And restructured text is supposed to be readable.

Thomas