I would be in favor of a warning message generated by PyPI when a long_description field is not reST compliant. I don't think it is a client-side job.
In any case you can test your long_description field like this: $ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py --strict > /dev/null If something goes wrong in the conversion you'll get a warning here On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Noah Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I would post a generally help tip that Ian Bicking helped me > with. I couldn't figure out why my ReST formatted long_description > field would not get converted to HTML when I registered my egg with > the cheeseshop: > > python setup.py register > > It turns out I had a minor error in my ReST formatting, I didn't > underline a headline with enough length. So, the moral of the story > is if you wonder why you cannot get HTML formatted ReST to display > when you register your egg, it is possible you have a formatting > error. It was tricky for me to discover, because I did not get any > error message when I uploaded to the cheeseshop, and I just missed the > minor formatting error when I was viewing the converted HTML document > I used to preview what I created. > > > Noah Gift / http://noahgift.com > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/
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