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

[Ondrej Certik]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:15:43 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
>>> Just to make it clear -- I think the docs should not be generated in
>>> the tarball -- only the sources should be there.
>>
>> I agree this makes more sense for you, as a packager, but I am not sure
>> it makes much sense to put the doc sources in the tarball for users
>> (Building numpy should only require python + a C compiler; building the
>> doc is more difficult  -you need at least sphinx and all its
>> dependencies).
>>
>> For audiolab, I put the generated doc, thinking if people want to mess
>> with the doc, they are knowledgeable enough to deal with svn - but I did
>> not think about the packagers :) I am not sure what's the best solution:
>> maybe put both in the (released) source tarball ?
>
> I'd say that we put the source for the documentation to the documentation
> tarball, and distribute the built HTML+whatever documentation in a
> separate package.

Why not to just include the *sources* together with numpy, and
possibly include html+whatever in a separate documentation package?

That way everybody is happy.

Ondrej