This might sound slightly off-topic but I will say it anyway: No one forces you to use `make` for building the documentation. Once you've installed Sphinx, you also have `sphinx-build` on your $PATH::
$ cd $djangofolder/docs $ sphinx-build . _build/html -- Horst On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Ingram <a...@andrewingram.net> wrote: > 2009/2/11 Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com>: >> Rubbish. Make is widely understood by anyone that has spent more than >> 30 minutes working with Unix, or has graduated from a CS course at any >> halfway decent university. >> >> Even if this wasn't true - you don't need to understand make files to >> use them. If you're using a unix system, you won't even need to >> install make - in all probability, it's already installed. Typing >> 'make html' really isn't that hard. > > I graduated less than 3 years ago with a masters in computer science > from a top uni for Comp Sci, and I never used make during that time > because everything we did was either in Java or in C that was so > trivial that a script wasn't needed. > > Regardless of your opinion on using windows for development, such > developers exist (I use windows at work and osx at home). Not having > the time to develop a cross-platform build script for the docs is one > thing but it's pretty arrogant to dismiss it outright. > > The Django devs are perfectly entitled to ignore Windows as far as > docs go, but please don't make assumptions about the abilities and > needs of your users. > > Regards, > Andrew Ingram > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
