On 10/29/2013 10:04 AM, Arun Neelicattu wrote:

Hi,

Current implementation relies on logilab.optik_ext.ManHelpFormatter for man page generation. Can we remove this dependency by copying over what we need?

The main reason for asking this is because this stalls the completion of python3 porting work. The current version of logilab-common [1] does not seem to install cleanly when using python3.

I have attached the the code derived from [2], can we use this or something similar instead of relying on logilab being present in the build environment? Furthermore, should the man page generation be re-factored out of bin/bugzilla? It seems that this is only relevant only in the context of installation and/or rpm packaging. Am I missing something obvious here?

The other option is to skip generation all together if running under python3.

Regards, Arun

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/logilab-common [2] http://www.logilab.org/versionedfile/10738

The --generate-man option should only be used by the maintainer before a release, to generate the man page from help output. So the only person this should affect is me, and I can just generate the release using python2, I'll have pylint installed anyways :) I'd prefer not to bundle a file from another project if it isn't strictly required.

Thanks, Cole