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Docutils_ Distributor's Guide
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:Author: Lea Wiemann
:Contact: [email protected]
:Revision: $Revision: 6154 $
:Date: $Date: 2009-10-05 21:08:10 +0200 (Mon, 05 Okt 2009) $
:Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.
.. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
.. contents::
This document describes how to create packages of Docutils (e.g. for
shipping with a Linux distribution). If you have any questions,
please direct them to the Docutils-develop_ mailing list.
First, please download the most current `release tarball`_ and unpack
it.
.. _Docutils-develop: ../user/mailing-lists.html#docutils-develop
.. _release tarball: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/#download
Dependencies
============
Docutils has the following dependencies:
* Python 2.3 or later is required. Use ">= Python 2.3" in the
dependencies.
* Docutils may optionally make use of the PIL (`Python Imaging
Library`_). If PIL is present, it is automatically detected by
Docutils.
* There is one file in the ``extras/`` directory of the Docutils
distribution, ``roman.py``. It is automatically installed by the setup
script (when calling "python setup.py install").
.. _Python Imaging Library: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
Python Files
============
The Docutils Python files must be installed into the
``site-packages/`` directory of Python. Running ``python setup.py
install`` should do the trick, but if you want to place the files
yourself, you can just install the ``docutils/`` directory of the
Docutils tarball to ``/usr/lib/python/site-packages/docutils/``. In
this case you should also compile the Python files to ``.pyc`` and/or
``.pyo`` files so that Docutils doesn't need to be recompiled every
time it's executed.
Executables
===========
The executable front-end tools are located in the ``tools/`` directory
of the Docutils tarball.
The ``rst2*.py`` tools (except ``rst2newlatex.py``) are intended for
end-users. You should install them to ``/usr/bin/``. You do not need
to change the names (e.g. to ``docutils-rst2html.py``) because the
``rst2`` prefix is unique.
Documentation
=============
The documentation should be generated using ``buildhtml.py``. To
generate HTML for all documentation files, go to the ``tools/``
directory and run::
# Place html4css1.css in base directory.
cp ../docutils/writers/html4css1/html4css1.css ..
./buildhtml.py --stylesheet-path=../html4css1.css ..
Then install the following files to ``/usr/share/doc/docutils/`` (or
wherever you install documentation):
* All ``.html`` and ``.txt`` files in the base directory.
* The ``docs/`` directory.
Do not install the contents of the ``docs/`` directory directly to
``/usr/share/doc/docutils/``; it's incomplete and would contain
invalid references!
* The ``licenses/`` directory.
* ``html4css1.css`` in the base directory.
Removing the ``.txt`` Files
---------------------------
If you are tight with disk space, you can remove all ``.txt`` files in
the tree except for:
* those in the ``licenses/`` directory because they have not been
processed to HTML and
* ``user/rst/cheatsheet.txt`` and ``user/rst/demo.txt``, which should
be readable in source form.
Before you remove the ``.txt`` files you should rerun ``buildhtml.py``
with the ``--no-source-link`` switch to avoid broken references to the
source files.
Other Files
===========
You may want to install the Emacs-Lisp files
``tools/editors/emacs/*.el`` into the appropriate directory.
Configuration File
==================
It is possible to have a system-wide configuration file at
``/etc/docutils.conf``. However, this is usually not necessary. You
should *not* install ``tools/docutils.conf`` into ``/etc/``.
Tests
=====
While you probably do not need to ship the tests with your
distribution, you can test your package by installing it and then
running ``alltests.py`` from the ``tests/`` directory of the Docutils
tarball.