On Jun 29, 2006, at 5:37 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 6/28/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I assume that most people will read the docs on the web, and that >> if they >> want the documentation source, they will download the "sdist" >> distribution >> that I always upload alongside of the eggs. > > I work offline sufficiently often that not having local documentation > is frustrating. There's no standard for local docs, which is a > nuisance, and makes for an inconsistent story between different > packages, but I'd be concerned if setuptools made it more difficult to > bundle local docs.
I'll second this (or is it third, since Jim was asking something similar)? Being able to get at a package's documentation after it's installed would be nice. If you use docstrings, at least you can use help() and pydoc for apidocs. Kevin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
