[Pydotorg-www] About the new build system

[Stephan Deibel]

Manlio Perillo wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of the python.it web site.
> 
> We are using a modified version of ht2html, but it has many problems.
> 
> I'm planning to update the software but it seems that the new build 
> system for python.org has all the features I need.
> 
> So I would like to contribute to the development, trying (if possibile) 
> to write a reusable core.
> 
> The current version, in fact, is strictly related to the python.org site.
> I can adapt the software for python.it, but I think that having the 
> possibility to work on a common piece of software is the best solution.

You can check it all out from svn+ssh://pydotorg@svn.python.org/trunk/beta.python.org
to try it out.  However, there are plenty of python.org-specific parts in the build
process.  The core may be reusable, tho, with some work.  You're welcome to hack
away at it...

- Stephan