A little sad and confused

[eluser]theprodigy[/eluser]
I have been using CodeIgniter for a while now, and have loved it. It is my "go to" framework. It is the one I know and love.

It's been a little while since I have downloaded a new version from GitHub, so I'm not sure when this happened, but it disturbs me.

Now, I realize if I download the 'newest' version of CodeIgniter from the site itself, everything is hunky-dory, but if I want the latest and greatest, and decide to download from GitHub, I find out that I am not downloading the user_guide with it (which I may need to use to explore the latest features). No, instead, I am downloading the user_guide_src.

In order to turn the source into an actual user_guide, I have to install something called 'easy install', which requires Python. Then using 'easy install', install a few other things, then install some lexer for syntax highlighting, then I can finally convert the source into a user guide.

I'm not sure who thought it would be cool to require Python in order to 'make' the user guide for a PHP framework, but WTH?!

Don't get me wrong, I already have Python installed. I'm not complaining about 'having to do a little work', but really?!? Why use one language to create the user guide for another language? It doesn't seem logical to me.

Sorry for my ranting, I'm just confused.

[eluser]Aken[/eluser]
There were lots of reasons behind switching to Sphinx for the user guide: http://codeigniter.com/news/new_user_gui...evelopment

And since Github is the development source for CodeIgniter, you'll be downloading the development version of it, not the finished, rendered user guide like in the zip files from CI.com.

There is a nightly build of the 3.0 dev user guide available here: http://codeigniter.com/nightly_user_guide It doesn't actually update nightly that I've noticed, but it's usually up-to-date.