Bibstuff on github

[dschwilk]

Hello,

I was recently using some of the old bibstuff code for another project, and because I was fooling around with the code, I wanted to put it in git, which I use more than svn so I put a version of the repository on github: https://github.com/dschwilk/bibstuff

I used git-svn to make a local git repo from the google code svn repo, then pulled in some of the relevant commits from https://github.com/matthew-brett/bibstuff (but left out the sphinx extension sub package that was the purpose of your fork for now).

I added a tests directory with basically simple demo tests (a stub, anyway), and I made a sphinx documentation Makefile that compiles docs automatically and pushes them to github pages: http://dschwilk.github.io/bibstuff/

I checked with Alan Isaac, and he is OK with moving the main development to github.

[matthew-brett]

Great - good hunting with it. As you can see, this repo is more or less retired, I'm not using it any more really, and there are better sphinx extensions now, doing the nearly the same thing, such as https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/sphinxcontrib-bibtex

[mcmtroffaes]

@dschwilk You may also be interested in https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/latexcodec which is essentially a much improved version of https://github.com/dschwilk/bibstuff/blob/master/bibstuff/data/latex_codec.py

Another thing to consider is to use http://pybtex.sourceforge.net/ as a backend for bibstuff - it handles parsing and formatting of bib files really well.

Good luck!!

[dschwilk]

Thanks for pointing out those improved resources! In the past few years I've used bibstuff mostly for doing customized tenure-packet related citations lists for myself and colleagues. It looks like there may be better options out there now. https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/latexcodec looks especially useful for the kind of thing I've done with these tenure packet and CV formatting tasks.

[johnyf]

ba02c382a31946afde38517f619651814086b95f retired this repository in favor of sphinxcomtrib_bibtex. The link to the original project though still points to Google code. Google code has been shut down, suggesting that this fork is a continuation of an abandoned project from Google code. Due to this first impression, initially I didn't follow the link to Google code, and so didn't notice the redirect from Google code to https://github.com/dschwilk/bibstuff, until I read this issue.

Would it be possible to link to https://github.com/dschwilk/bibstuff from the README? Perhaps this could be mentioned also in the GitHub title for the project (the summary line at the top), so that people browsing can find it more directly.

Side comment: renaming README.txt to README.rst would also help with reading within the repository.

[matthew-brett]

Would you consider doing a PR to make those changes? That would be very helpful.

[johnyf]

Yes, please find the changes in #12.