Should we include rst2man?

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Fri Sep 4 02:02:05 CDT 2009


Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> writes:

> FWIW: my windows installer builder only uses rst2html. If we package
> one we should package them both

I'm sorry, but we're not talking about including Docutils, which is a
large package. The goal was simply to avoid requiring an unreleased
version of Docutils.

That is why we now include the manpage writer ourselves. The writer is
self-contained, but depends on the rest of Docutils to work:

  http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew/file/a82db54bc3be/doc/rst2man.py

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