[Numpy-discussion] Using numpydoc outside of numpy

[Michael Droettboom]

Sorry for the noise.  Found the instructions in HOWTO_BUILD_DOCS.txt .

Mike

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting a project to use Sphinx for 
> documentation, and would like to use the Numpy docstring standard with 
> its sections etc.  It appears, however, that the numpydoc sphinxext is 
> not installed but merely sits in doc/sphinxext.  I see that scipy uses 
> an SVN external to get at this stuff, but I'd prefer not to do that if 
> possible (my project may not live in SVN forever).  I see that numpydoc 
> is separately installable (it has a setup.py), but then I assume users 
> of my project who wish to build the docs must download the numpy source 
> and know to explicitly install the numpydoc package.
>
> Are there plans to install the numpydoc extension under the numpy 
> install tree somewhere so that other projects can use it, simply by 
> having numpy installed?  This is what we do with the plot_directive in 
> matplotlib.  Is there a reason that's not a good idea for numpy?  Or is 
> there a way for my project to use it that I'm missing?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>   

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Michael Droettboom
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Space Telescope Science Institute
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