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date: 2012/01/08 23:21
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slug: BB964
tags: programming, python, rst2pdf
title: 'Abandonment issues: rst2pdf'
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updated: 2012/01/08 23:21
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Of all the corpses of my projects, there is one thatI feel worse about, which is `rst2pdf <http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com>`_. I feel bad about abandnoning several, but rst2pdf was actually a useful tool, used by a bunch of people, and that it has never gathered enough momentum with other developers is sad.

So, I will pick it up. I will spend about 4 hours a week on it. The plan is to:

1) Gather some patches that are lingering on the issue tracker
2) Fix some simple-ish bugs
3) Make another release with 1) and 2)

And of course:

4) Not let it fall in disrepair again

In the meantime, here is a nice thing I just heard about. Dimitri Christodoulou has `hacked rst2pdf <http://dimitri-christodoulou.blogspot.com/search/label/rst2pdf>`_ so that it can handle the ``raw:: html`` directive.

This, dear friends is completely nuts, absolutely out of scope for any given docutils tool, and just too cool :-)

I will try to hijack his code (proper credit and so on), and incorporate it into rst2pdf.

And Dimitri, or anyone else who wants to do cool stuff with rst2pdf: let me know! I will give you commit rights immediately!