[PyX-devel] Re: minor comments about 0.6.3 tarball, Debian package for PyX 0.6.3

[Graham W. <bo...@de...>]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:59:56PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Andre Wobst wrote:
> > I suggest to skip the pdfs in the source distribution. This seems to
> > be the only meaningful solution. We should prepare and distribute a
> > separate documentation file containing *only* the precompiled pdf
> > files.
> 
> Yes, I think this would be a good solution.

Another idea would be to just distribute the PDF files on the web, and
users can get them from there, or compile them from source using the
tarball. Your call, Andre.

> > Ok, I've modified MANIFEST.in accordingly.
> 
> Sorry, I'm not clear what you have changed.

The MANIFEST.in file is what setup.py uses to determine which files
should be in the source tarball.

> Debian's preferred form of documention is html. So I think this is at
> least of some interest wrt the Debian package. I certainly don't think
> this is something the PyX project should be concerned about, but any
> assistance is appreciated.

Agreed.

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gram