[Biopython-dev] Daily builds of the Tutorial (PDF and HTML)

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Mon Mar 22 16:08:27 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Back in November I set up a simple pair of cron jobs to update the code
> snapshot on http://biopython.open-bio.org/SRC/biopython/ every hour:
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2009-November/007002.html
>
> I've just added another job which takes the latest Tutorial.tex file and
> compiles it with pdflatex (already installed) and hevea (installed from
> source under my user account) to make the PDF and HTML files.
> These are then copied to the webserver and published as:
>
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial-dev.html
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial-dev.pdf
>
> These are currently updated once a day (at 2:40am which shouldn't
> be too busy whichever USA timezone the server uses). Assuming
> I got my crontab settings right - in the short term I'll keep an eye on
> it to check ;)

It looks like the PDF is working (which happens first in the script),
but not the HTML. I'll look into this...

Peter



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