Issue 1682403: Transform reST to styled text in bdist_wininst-produced installers (original) (raw)

Created on 2007-03-16 19:58 by jvickroy, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (7)
msg31554 - (view)	Author: j vickroy (jvickroy)	Date: 2007-03-16 19:58
From the definition of long_description: *'long string'* Multiple lines of plain text in reStructuredText format (see http://docutils.sf.net/). in: http://docs.python.org/dist/meta-data.html I incorrectly concluded that the the bdist_wininst installer would provide visual markup for long_description specified in restructured text. According to Thomas Heller, that is not the case. I wish to suggest adding this clarification to the distutils documentation perhaps in one or both of the following documents: http://docs.python.org/dist/postinstallation-script.html http://docs.python.org/dist/meta-data.html Thanks, -- jv
msg31555 - (view)	Author: Collin Winter (collinwinter) *	Date: 2007-03-28 23:46
I'm not quite sure what the problem is. What kind of "visual markup" did you expect?
msg31556 - (view)	Author: j vickroy (jvickroy)	Date: 2007-03-29 14:26
I expected bold font when using "**" markers, list bullets when using "*" and "-" markers, etc. in the long_description text definition. Unfortunately, all of these markers are simply passed through unprocessed in the long description text that appears in the opening window when running the generated binary installer. Does this help clarify the issue?
msg31557 - (view)	Author: Collin Winter (collinwinter) *	Date: 2007-03-30 03:03
Martin, you handle a lot of the Windows-related code, right? Thoughts on this?
msg113403 - (view)	Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *	Date: 2010-08-09 11:08
Is there documentation somewhere that would explain what file to produce with what markup?
msg114468 - (view)	Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *	Date: 2010-08-21 00:09
I added an item to the todo list of distutils2 so that the current behavior is documented: http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distutils2/wiki/Todo
msg213466 - (view)	Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *	Date: 2014-03-13 20:45
The marked-up text is still readable, and PyPI / project’s documentation render nice HTML. If someone knows how to style text in a wininst program and wants to work on a patch, please reopen this ticket.