[Distutils] man pages

[Andrew McNabb]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:51:39PM -0700, Ken Kundert wrote:
> 
> While I appreciate the reason why the data files are now placed in the 
> site-packages directory, this change seems to break support for man pages 
> (unless I am missing something).  And since man pages should be supplied for all 
> executables, this seems like a serious issue. Perhaps there should be dedicated 
> support for man pages in much the same way there is dedicated support for 
> scripts.

I share this concern, and the lack of support for man pages is why I am
stuck using distutils instead of setuptools or distribute.

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