Jim Vickroy schrieb: > Hello, > > I have been unsuccessful in using restructured text formatting tags in > the long_description parameter for the distutils.core.setup function. > > When the attached "setup" script (see GOES-13-SXI-processor-installer.py > attachment) is run from the command line as: > > > GOES-13-SXI-processor-installer.py clean bdist_wininst --title="FITS > Images Processor" --bitmap=GOES-13-SXI-Processor.bmp > > the first panel of the generated win32 installer has no boldface text > (see installer.png attachment) > > When I feed the long_description text to docutils/tools/rst2html.py, the > generated html is as expected. > > My setup is: > > Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on > win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import docutils > >>> docutils.__version__ > '0.5' > >>> > > on a MS Windows XP machine running service pack 2. > > I am a new user of both distutils and docutils so any thoughts on what I > am doing incorrectly would be appreciated.
The bdist_wininst installer can only display pure text, it cannot render HTML or some other format. And restructured text is supposed to be readable. Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
