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

Stuart Campbell campbellsi at ornl.gov
Fri Dec 4 15:59:28 GMT 2015


Hi Mark,
Could you point me to the location of the rst2man for SL.  I can't find 
it in their repo...
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/SRPMS/sl6/
Cheers
Stu

On 12/04/2015 10:20 AM, Koennecke Mark (PSI) wrote:
> 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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