instead of applying this only to usage generation, use it as a generic
mechanism to disable loading of Cython code.
it may be incomplete: there may be other places where Cython code is
loaded that is not checked, but that is sufficient to build the usage
docs. the environment variable used is documented as such in the
docs/usage.rst.
we also move the check to a helper function and document it
better. this has the unfortunate side effect of moving includes
around, but I can't think of a better way.
this is such a crude hack it is totally embarrassing....
the proper solution would probably be to move the `build_parser()`
function out of `Archiver` completely, but this is such an undertaking
that i doubt it is worth doing since we're looking at switching to
click anyways.
the main problem in moving build_parser() out is that it references
`self` all the time, so it *needs* an archiver context that it can
reuse. we could make the function static and pass self in there by
hand, but it seems like almost a worse hack... and besides, we would
need to load the archiver in order to do that, which would break usage
all over again...
this is an unfortunate rewrite of the manpage creation code mentionned
in #208. ideally, this would be rewritten into a class that can
generate both man pages and .rst files.
first off, this required ticking the `Install your project inside a
virtualenv using setup.py install` box in the advanced config.
then, i had to disable all the C extensions build and disable some
checks, based on whether we are running on RTD or not.
still missing: usage builds and possibly other stuff that is in our
Makefile and not in setup.py.
use borg instead attic except at the places where it was used:
- as toplevel package name, directory name, file name
- to refer to original attic
remove sphinx upload make command, will be replaced by github.io site later
remove references to binary downloads and linux packages for now
remove some software name references, fix grammar
use borgbackup rather than borg-backup (or borg) in URLs,
less name collision issues, better search results, no validity issues with "-"
os.uname is UNIX-only, sys.platform is portable.
note:
- this doesn't implicate attic will now work on windows.
- windows is untested / unsupported and there might be a lot of other issues left.
- attic's xattr module already used sys.platform, so this is better for internal consistency also.
