Add "dist" target.

Doc/Makefile

@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ SVNROOT      = http://svn.python.org/projects
 SPHINXOPTS   =
 PAPER        =
 SOURCES      =
+DISTVERSION  =
 
 ALLSPHINXOPTS = -b $(BUILDER) -d build/doctrees -D latex_paper_size=$(PAPER) \
                 $(SPHINXOPTS) . build/$(BUILDER) $(SOURCES)
 
-.PHONY: help checkout update build html htmlhelp clean coverage
+.PHONY: help checkout update build html htmlhelp clean coverage dist
 
 help:
 	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ help:
 	@echo "  changes   to make an overview over all changed/added/deprecated items"
 	@echo "  linkcheck to check all external links for integrity"
 	@echo "  coverage  to check documentation coverage for library and C API"
+	@echo "  dist      to create a \"dist\" directory with archived docs for download"
 
 checkout:
 	@if [ ! -d tools/sphinx ]; then \
@@ -98,6 +100,44 @@ pydoc-topics: build
 
 htmlview: html
 	 $(PYTHON) -c "import webbrowser; webbrowser.open('build/html/index.html')"
+
 clean:
 	-rm -rf build/*
 	-rm -rf tools/sphinx
+
+dist:
+	-rm -rf dist
+	mkdir -p dist
+
+	# archive the HTML
+	make html
+	cp -a build/html dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-html
+	tar -C dist -cf dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-html.tar python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-html
+	bzip2 -9 -k dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-html.tar
+	(cd dist; zip -q -r -9 python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-html.zip python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-html)
+	rm -r dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-html
+	rm dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-html.tar
+
+	# archive the text build
+	make text
+	cp -a build/text dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-text
+	tar -C dist -cf dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-text.tar python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-text
+	bzip2 -9 -k dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-text.tar
+	(cd dist; zip -q -r -9 python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-text.zip python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-text)
+	rm -r dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-text
+	rm dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-text.tar
+	
+	# archive the A4 latex
+	-rm -r build/latex
+	make latex PAPER=a4
+	(cd build/latex; make clean && make all-pdf && make FMT=pdf zip bz2)
+	cp build/latex/docs-pdf.zip dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-pdf-a4.zip
+	cp build/latex/docs-pdf.tar.bz2 dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-pdf-a4.tar.bz2
+
+	# archive the letter latex
+	rm -r build/latex
+	make latex PAPER=letter
+	(cd build/latex; make clean && make all-pdf && make FMT=pdf zip bz2)
+	cp build/latex/docs-pdf.zip dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-pdf-letter.zip
+	cp build/latex/docs-pdf.tar.bz2 dist/python$(DISTVERSION)-docs-pdf-letter.tar.bz2
+