[Add CC to distutils-sig again]

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Jim Vickroy schrieb:

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Hello,

I have been unsuccessful in using restructured text formatting tags in the long_description parameter for the distutils.core.setup function.

When the attached "setup" script (see GOES-13-SXI-processor-installer.py attachment) is run from the command line as:

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GOES-13-SXI-processor-installer.py clean bdist_wininst --title="FITS Images Processor" --bitmap=GOES-13-SXI-Processor.bmp

the first panel of the generated win32 installer has no boldface text (see installer.png attachment)

When I feed the long_description text to docutils/tools/rst2html.py, the generated html is as expected.

Jim Vickroy schrieb:

Thanks much, Thomas.

I think this piece of wisdom would be useful to add to the distutils document, or is that limitation obvious to everyone but me?

Well, you're the first one to ask this question ;-). I have no idea where you got the impression from that using rest in the long_description should give visual markup in the bdist_wininst installer. Maybe that would be the place where a hint like 'distutils does not interpret rest' would be usefull. Thomas