[Distutils] docs/ vs doc/

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 09:47:12 CEST 2010


On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> upload_docs command will extract documentation from 'docs/' by
>> default. I wouldn't bring this question if it could also process
>> 'doc/' in cases where 'docs/' are absent. You can specify upload
>> directory explicitly, but sometimes you'd really like it to just work.
>
> Of course, we'd have to define what "just work" means here.  I'd be
> fine having to always tell upload_docs where to look, provided I can
> do that in the setup.cfg d2 uses.
>
> That said, I don't *mind* if it looks for both docs/ and doc/, or even
> care which it looks for first.

+1 -- trying both seems fine as I don't think we want to push hard on
any convention here.

Tarek
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