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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2007-08-30 18:34:23 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2007-08-30 18:34:23 (GMT)
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Add 3.0 to the silly list in license.rst too, and update the Doc README.
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@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ those familiar with the previous docs written in LaTeX.
Building the docs
=================
-You need to install Python 2.5 or higher; the toolset used to build the docs are
-written in Python. The toolset used to build the documentation is called
-*Sphinx*, it is not included in this tree, but maintained separately in the
-Python Subversion repository. Also needed are Jinja, a templating engine
-(included in Sphinx as a Subversion external), and optionally Pygments, a code
-highlighter.
+You need to install Python 2.5.1 or higher (but Python 3.0 is not supported yet);
+the toolset used to build the docs are written in Python. The toolset used
+to build the documentation is called *Sphinx*, it is not included in this
+tree, but maintained separately in the Python Subversion repository. Also
+needed are Jinja, a templating engine (included in Sphinx as a Subversion
+external), and optionally Pygments, a code highlighter.
Using make
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ to check out the necessary toolset in the `tools/` subdirectory and build the
HTML output files. To view the generated HTML, point your favorite browser at
the top-level index `build/html/index.html` after running "make".
+To use a Python interpreter that's not called ``python``, use the standard
+way to set Makefile variables, using e.g. ::
+
+ make html PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.5
+
Available make targets are:
* "html", which builds standalone HTML files for offline viewing.