Bug 1088607

Description of problem:

pelican is a static site generator that takes input from REST or Markdown files; however, markdown is considered an optional dependency. The official Pelican documentation (http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.1.1/getting_started.html) notes that python-markdown needs to be manually installed alongside Pelican if you want to enable Markdown support.

The Fedora package does not Require python-markdown, though, so if you just install the package through yum without reading the quickstart guide, you won't get python-markdown and so pelican won't actually be capable of doing anything with Markdown files.

I ran into this when working on a website that I had started on a different computer. I was working from the Pelican quickstart guide the first time and so didn't run into an issue, but the second time I simply ran "yum install python-pelican", hoping it'd pull in all dependencies. I was then briefly confused when I looked at the build output until I checked the quickstart guide again and noticed I hadn't installed python-markdown.

Personally, I think the package should just require python-markdown, even though markdown is technically an optional dependency.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
3.3.0-3.fc20 


How reproducible:
Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install python-pelican
2. Do not install (or remove) python-markdown
3. Create a new pelican project using pelican-quickstart and create some *.md files in content/
4. Attempt to build using "make html".


Actual results:

"make html" returns the following output:

[bjr@rannoch pelican-test]$ make html
pelican /home/bjr/Programming/python/pelican-test/content -o /home/bjr/Programming/python/pelican-test/output -s /home/bjr/Programming/python/pelican-test/pelicanconf.py 
WARNING: No valid files found in content.
Done: Processed 0 articles and 0 pages in 0.09 seconds.

If you then run "make serve" (the command to launch a debugging server on port 8000), you will, as probably expected, see a webpage devoid of any content.


Expected results:

You wouldn't see that warning, and running "make serve" would show you all your content.