aum wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best way to incorporate manpages in a distutils setup.py > script? > > Is there any distro-independent way to find the most appropriate place to > put the manpages? > For instance, /usr/man/? /usr/share/man? /usr/local/man? > /usr/local/share/man?
What do you mean distro? Linux? That should be /usr/local/man but AFAIK some distros are misconfigured and their man doesn't search /usr/local by default, YMMV. > Also - I've got .html conversions of the manpages, for the benefit of OSs > such as Windows which don't natively support manpages. What's the best > place to put these? your_tool --html-manual that uses os.start or webbrowser module to invoke html viewer. Or your_tool --man that dumps plain text on the screen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list