[ python-Bugs-1682403 ] docutils clarification request for "rest"

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Bugs item #1682403, was opened at 2007-03-16 15:58
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Category: Documentation
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: j vickroy (jvickroy)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: docutils clarification request for "rest"

Initial Comment:
>From the definition of long_description:
 
 *'long string'*
     Multiple lines of plain text in reStructuredText format (see http://docutils.sf.net/).
 
in:

  http://docs.python.org/dist/meta-data.html

I incorrectly concluded that the the bdist_wininst installer would provide visual markup for long_description specified in restructured text.

According to Thomas Heller, that is not the case.

I wish to suggest adding this clarification to the distutils documentation perhaps in one or both of the following documents:

 http://docs.python.org/dist/postinstallation-script.html
 http://docs.python.org/dist/meta-data.html

Thanks,

-- jv

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>Comment By: Collin Winter (collinwinter)
Date: 2007-03-28 19:46

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I'm not quite sure what the problem is. What kind of "visual markup" did
you expect?

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