[Twisted-Python] Proposal (almost) to switch from Lore to Sphinx

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Tue Nov 17 12:16:44 MST 2009


On 06:00 pm, kevin.horn at gmail.com wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:00 AM, lasizoillo <lasizoillo at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>>2009/11/11 Kevin Horn <kevin.horn at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > I have written up a proposal here:
>> >
>> > http://twistedsphinx.funsize.net/proposal.html
>> >
>>
>>In this proposal you say:
>>
>>Development Work
>>  * fabric fabfile for automation of docs workflow
>>
>>Future Work
>>  * This page has some stuff on using cog in RestructuredText comments
>>to generate the output of sample scripts.
>>
>>The second point (in Future Work) uses cog that is integrated in 
>>paver:
>>  * Paver allow automation of docs workflow (fabric is not needed).
>>  * With paver you can create an bootstraped instalation:
>>
>>http://www.blueskyonmars.com/projects/paver/getting_started.html#but- 
>>people-don-t-have-paver-yet
>>  * Paver is compatible with setuptools and distutils.
>>
>>I think that fabric is great for cluster distributions, but paver is
>>better for manage docs.
>>
>>Regards,
>>  Javi
>For the moment, I plan to continue using fabric, for the following 
>reasons:
>
>- I'm already familiar with it
>- it does what I need (run local commands, and send stuff over SSH)
>
>I think Paver might be very useful down the road, though.  I'll 
>definitely
>check into it more as this project progresses.

Paver and fabric and such are only significant for the conversion, 
though, right?

Jean-Paul




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