Beets: Pip package doesn't install a manpage

[alfiepates]

Tested on OS X

LP-AP1:~ alfiepates$ man beet
No manual entry for beet

[sampsyo]

Yes, this is sad. But alas, it is not fixable (in the current Python packaging context).

Here's a little bit of background:

• Here's another bug on another project where this is an issue with ordinary Python installs: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7790
• Here's a Stack Overflow question on the topic that peters out with a "no good way to do this yet": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3657209/python-installing-man-pages-in-distutils-based-project
• The setuptools developer documentation, which is surprisingly unhelpful on this topic: https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#developer-s-guide
• One blog post about a programmer shamefully resorting to an external instal.sh: http://empt1e.blogspot.com/2010/08/installing-man-pages-with-distutils.html
• A bug report for another project that hacked together a rather dirty solution, got some flak for it, and eventually dropped the behavior: https://github.com/daltonmatos/wsgid/issues/2

So the official position of this project, somewhat mournfully, is that this needs to be handled by the OS-specific package manager, if any.