- update pkglist.html more frequently, and explain why that's helpful

- add a comment explaining what pkglist.html is for

diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index 5c0dc92ea2aa0edde9ebb0ecbaa9433e8a4b0f84..2fea4e4116bbc87fde1715702f7b6b9d6217258b 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/Makefile
+++ b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -677,9 +677,21 @@ distps:            tarps bzipps zipps
 distpdf:       tarpdf bzippdf zippdf
 distlatex:     tarlatex bziplatex ziplatex
 
-paperdist:     distpdf distps
-edist:         disthtml distinfo zipisilo
-
+# We use the "pkglist" target at the end of these to ensure the
+# package list is updated after building either of these; this seems a
+# reasonable compromise between only building it for distfiles or
+# having to build it manually.  Doing it here allows the packages for
+# distribution to be built using either of
+#     make distfiles && make PAPER=a4 paperdist
+#     make paperdist && make PAPER=a4 distfiles
+# The small amount of additional work is a small price to pay for not
+# having to remember which order to do it in. ;)
+paperdist:     distpdf distps pkglist
+edist:         disthtml distinfo zipisilo pkglist
+
+# The pkglist.html file is used as part of the download.html page on
+# python.org; it is not used as intermediate input here or as part of
+# the packages created.
 pkglist:
        $(TOOLSDIR)/mkpkglist >pkglist.html