Availability on CTAN

[Sergio Callegari]

It looks like pybtex is currently not available on CTAN. Given its good state of maturity and the many issues of plain bibtex with unicode, having pybtex on CTAN would represent a significant help to those LaTeX users that routinely refer to CTAN for their LaTeX tools.

Furthermore, recent talks on the Latex developers mailing list have underlined the need for a bibtex overhaul to support unicode and pybtex could be a good canditate for that.

Finally, in case upload of pybtex to CTAN is considered, the uploading of a version that is fully self locating (that is a tree that can be dropped anywhere without the need to run any setup.py and where the tool can find the location of its library parts only based on $0) would also enable the inclusion in texlive, where it could effectively become a drop in replacement for bibtex for many users.

[Andrey Golovizin]

Nice idea, didn't know it is possible to publish Python tools on CTAN. It shouldn't be too hard to build a self-contained bundle, I'll try to throw together a script for that, maybe this weekend.

Not sure if I'll have enough time to maintain a CTAN package though. Would you like to become a maintainer? :)

[Andrey Golovizin]

P.S. Sorry for late late reply. I'm not getting email notifications from Bitbucket for some reason.

[Andrey Golovizin]

Added a simple bundle.sh script in the bundle branch. Just run ./bundle.sh and it should create a self-contained bundle in the ./bundle subdirectory. Want to give it a try? :)