[Distutils] setuptools and man pages

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:53 PM 1/25/2011 -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 05:46:40PM -0500, P.J. Eby wrote:
> >
> > It also won't do anything if they're installing via another tool
> > such as pip, easy_install, buildout, etc.
>
>Do each of those support some way to install man pages?

I imagine one could write a buildout plugin that would do it.  There 
was some discussion a while back about a buildout plugin for documentation.

Really, distutils2 is probably a better candidate for solving this 
problem, but it's not yet released and in any case not widely installed as yet.