Re: Help on Meson build Error
On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 10:26 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 11:23:57AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 10:16 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > There is a completely different rst2html5 that people might get
> > from "pip" if you did "pip install rst2html5". This version
is
> > broken and unusable and so needs to be removed.
>
> Can we do something to get that package off PyPi? It's not the first
> time the overlap has caused trouble for our users, and it certainly
> won't be the last...
Well it is not really our place to demand its removal. It isn't violating
any rules of PyPi and AFAICT, it existed before docutils provided the
same binary name.
I never said we should "demand" anything, but the current situation
is clearly confusing to users. While it might have made sense to have
rst2html5 as a separate package back when docutils didn't support
HTML5 output directly, now a very unfortunate name clash has been
created and I think we should make at least an attempt at solving it
instead of working around it.
The only good course of action is probably to submit a patch to
actually
make it work.
I would consider that undesirable, as the two tools are then bound to
get out of sync again further down the line. Making it a wrapper for
docutils' rst2html5 might work.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization