What is a simple webpage compiler for restructured text?

Question

Instead of a blog/cms, I'd like to have a static html-based site with a few (rarely updated) pages. I figure the simplest way to update them is to keep the sources in a format like ReST, and compile it each time it updates. What is a recommended compiler for this usage? I'd like to have my own theme/design and I don't need anything beyond the proper ReST syntax (Sphinx is too much, for example).

Answer 1

A Makefile would be a good solution to do this. Here's a quick template makefile

# Flags to pass to rst2html
# e.g. RSTFLAGS = --stylesheet-path=mystyle.css 
RSTFLAGS = 

%.html: %.rst
        rst2html $(RSTFLAGS) $< $@

.PHONY: all
.DEFAULT: all

all: index.html foo.html bar.html # any other html files to be generated from an rst file

Then just run make in the directory with your files to generate the html from the rst