'Generate the man pages... this is currently done through POD,
possible future version may do this through some Python mechanism
(maybe conversion from ReStructured Text (.rst))...'

def run(self):

    if self.dry_run:
        mode = 'newer'
    else:
        mode = 'error'
    for infile in self.distribution.man_pages:
        outfile = os.path.join(self.build_dir, (os.path.splitext(infile)[0] + '.gz'))
        if (self.force or dep_util.newer_group([infile], outfile, mode)):
            self.build_one_file(infile, outfile)
