[Nexus] How many of you have rst2man available on their Linux distribution

[Koennecke Mark (PSI)]

Hi,

even SL6 has rst2man

But OSX does not. 

Regards,

    Mark Könnecke

> Am 04.12.2015 um 15:45 schrieb Carlos Pascual <cpascual at cells.es>:
> 
> I have them on debian and suse.
> 
> And in any case, any system with pip installed can install them in one 
> command (not asking too much for someone compiling nexus...)
> 
> 
> On Fri 4 December 2015 11:25:51 Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>  I was just thinking about how to simplify the generation of program
>> documentation. Every command line program should come with a man-page.
>> However, formatting man pages manually is rather tedious. We already
>> use sphinx for the generation of the NeXus definitions HTML and PDF
>> documentation. So I was thinking to streamline the documentation
>> generation totally on restructures text.
>> To obtain man-pages from rst files one could either use
>> 
>> * sphinx
>> * rst2man
>> 
>> Is it safe to assume that actual Linux distributions a user runs have
>> theses tools available from their package manager?
>> On Debian I know that this would work. Can you give me short report
>> how this would work out on the distributions you are using?
>> 
>> regards
>>  Eugen
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