[Distutils] setuptools and man pages
P.J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Jan 26 02:44:34 CET 2011
At 03:53 PM 1/25/2011 -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 05:46:40PM -0500, P.J. Eby wrote:
> >
> > It also won't do anything if they're installing via another tool
> > such as pip, easy_install, buildout, etc.
>
>Do each of those support some way to install man pages?
I imagine one could write a buildout plugin that would do it. There
was some discussion a while back about a buildout plugin for documentation.
Really, distutils2 is probably a better candidate for solving this
problem, but it's not yet released and in any case not widely installed as yet.
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