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

Koennecke Mark (PSI) mark.koennecke at psi.ch
Fri Dec 4 16:14:19 GMT 2015


Stuart,


> Am 04.12.2015 um 16:59 schrieb Stuart Campbell <campbellsi at ornl.gov>:
> 
> 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
> 

It is a bit hidden: it is python-docutils-0.6.1.el6.noarch

And that one appears to be in the sl6.4 base installation.

Regards,

    Mark


> 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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