[Distutils] Distutils register command and reStructuredText

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:12:58AM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Right now most people in the community uses reST for their
> long_description metadata.  It looks good in PyPI since it's displayed
> in HTML.
> 
> But if the reST is broken, it does not look right. (which happen regularly)
> 
> I'd like to add an option in the register command that would verify
> that the text is compiling well using docutils

I assume by "verify" you mean it would fail register if setup.py passes
something like long_description_format="reST" to setup()?

+1

Marius Gedminas
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