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===============================
 Docutils_ Distributor's Guide
===============================

:Author: Lea Wiemann
:Contact: docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
:Revision: $Revision: 7889 $
:Date: $Date: 2015-05-08 17:56:32 +0200 (Fr, 08 Mai 2015) $
:Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.

.. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

.. contents::

This document describes how to create packages of Docutils (e.g. for
shipping with a Linux distribution).  If you have any questions,
please direct them to the Docutils-develop_ mailing list.

First, please download the most current `release tarball`_ and unpack
it.

.. _Docutils-develop: ../user/mailing-lists.html#docutils-develop
.. _release tarball: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/#download


Dependencies
============

Docutils has the following dependencies:

* Python 2.4 or later is required.  Use ">= Python 2.4" in the
  dependencies.

* Docutils may optionally make use of the PIL (`Python Imaging
  Library`_).  If PIL is present, it is automatically detected by
  Docutils.

* Docutils recommends the `Pygments`_ syntax hightlighter. If available, it
  is used for highlighting the content of `code directives`_ and roles as
  well as included source code files (with the "code" option to the include_
  directive).

.. _Python Imaging Library: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
.. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
.. _code directives: ../ref/rst/directives.html#code
.. _include: ../ref/rst/directives.html#include


Python Files
============

The Docutils Python files must be installed into the
``site-packages/`` directory of Python.  Running ``python setup.py
install`` should do the trick, but if you want to place the files
yourself, you can just install the ``docutils/`` directory of the
Docutils tarball to ``/usr/lib/python/site-packages/docutils/``.  In
this case you should also compile the Python files to ``.pyc`` and/or
``.pyo`` files so that Docutils doesn't need to be recompiled every
time it's executed.


Executables
===========

The executable front-end tools are located in the ``tools/`` directory
of the Docutils tarball.

The ``rst2*.py`` tools (except ``rst2newlatex.py``) are intended for
end-users.  You should install them to ``/usr/bin/``.  You do not need
to change the names (e.g. to ``docutils-rst2html.py``) because the
``rst2`` prefix is unique.


Documentation
=============

The documentation should be generated using ``buildhtml.py``.  To
generate HTML for all documentation files, go to the ``tools/``
directory and run::

    # Place html4css1.css in base directory.
    cp ../docutils/writers/html4css1/html4css1.css ..
    ./buildhtml.py --stylesheet-path=../html4css1.css ..

Then install the following files to ``/usr/share/doc/docutils/`` (or
wherever you install documentation):

* All ``.html`` and ``.txt`` files in the base directory.

* The ``docs/`` directory.

  Do not install the contents of the ``docs/`` directory directly to
  ``/usr/share/doc/docutils/``; it's incomplete and would contain
  invalid references!

* The ``licenses/`` directory.

* ``html4css1.css`` in the base directory.


Removing the ``.txt`` Files
---------------------------

If you are tight with disk space, you can remove all ``.txt`` files in
the tree except for:

* those in the ``licenses/`` directory because they have not been
  processed to HTML and

* ``user/rst/cheatsheet.txt`` and ``user/rst/demo.txt``, which should
  be readable in source form.

Before you remove the ``.txt`` files you should rerun ``buildhtml.py``
with the ``--no-source-link`` switch to avoid broken references to the
source files.


Other Files
===========

You may want to install the Emacs-Lisp files
``tools/editors/emacs/*.el`` into the appropriate directory.


Configuration File
==================

It is possible to have a system-wide configuration file at
``/etc/docutils.conf``.  However, this is usually not necessary.  You
should *not* install ``tools/docutils.conf`` into ``/etc/``.


Tests
=====

While you probably do not need to ship the tests with your
distribution, you can test your package by installing it and then
running ``alltests.py`` from the ``tests/`` directory of the Docutils
tarball.

For more information on testing, view the `Docutils Testing`_ page.

.. _Docutils Testing: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/dev/testing.html