On 6/28/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
I assume that most people will read the docs on the web, and that if they want the documentation source, they will download the "sdist" distribution that I always upload alongside of the eggs.
I work offline sufficiently often that not having local documentation is frustrating. There's no standard for local docs, which is a nuisance, and makes for an inconsistent story between different packages, but I'd be concerned if setuptools made it more difficult to bundle local docs. An example - cx_Oracle provides a full set of HTML documentation which the bdist_wininst installer drops in C:\Python24\cx_Oracle-doc. The one time I tried using easy_install to convert this to an egg, the documentation got missed out. I've never retried the experiment, however, so things could well have changed, as this was quite a while ago. And of course, eggs which get installed as zip files don't really offer anywhere to *put* documentation which is accessible (web browsers can't load HTML out of zip files, for example). Paul.