Re: rst2pdf 0.91 is broken by docutils 0.9

"George V. Reilly" <george <at> reilly.org> writes:

> I have a couple of requests:
>
>    - Docutils team should do a sanity check of downstream modules
>    before a release. Perhaps those downstream projects can contribute
>    some smoke tests to docutils.

What should be the Docutils developers's response if those smoke tests
fail?

I think you have it backward; projects downstream from Docutils have the
responsibility to do a sanity check as new Docutils versions are
developed.

If you are a person depending on one of those downstream projects,
that's where you need to make clear your expectations. (And offer to
help those projects where feasible, of course.)

>    - Rst2pdf should have a minor release to fix the roman import
>    issue. A fix was checked in the other day. It should be promoted.

Have you contacted the rst2pdf developers about that?

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Re: rst2pdf 0.91 is broken by docutils 0.9

On 2012-05-29, George V. Reilly wrote:

> Docutils 0.9 moved the location of roman.py 

(the fallback copy for installations lacking roman.py (which is available
as an egg via pypi))

> to utils, 

in response to repeated bug reports
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2971827&group_id=38414&atid=422030
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3442827&group_id=38414&atid=422030

> which breaks rst2pdf 0.91, 

... in installations without roman.py.

> as described by http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/issues/detail?id=451

The easy solution is to install roman.py from pypi or similar sources
(e.g. the Linux distribution).

From the above URL I infer, that the issue is now fixed in rst2pdf.

We regret the inconvenience and hope that (despite the `general warning`_)
problems of this kind will be rare occurences.

> I have a couple of requests:

>    - Docutils team should do a sanity check of downstream modules before a
>    release.

I don't think this is possible. We do not even know all downstream
modules. 

With every release, changes that may require adaption of documents,
configuration settings and/or downstream modules are listed in the
RELEASE-NOTES. Planned incompatible changes are announced in advance.
This is a must-read for downstream module maintainers and a
better-do-read for anyone installing a new docutils version. 

The most up to date version is RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the SVN repository,
the last release's one is available as
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/RELEASE-NOTES.html

Besides this, there is the _`general warning`

  Docutils is in active development and APIs should be considered
  experimental subject to change at any time. Although any time is a time
  after serious thought and discussion.

  -- http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Günter

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