Tony Meyer wrote:

Is there any reason that this should be an option, and not just done?

Certainly: it's administrator load, which in turn is volunteer time.

For occasional source (particularly C source) lookups, I've found webcvs really useful (especially when on a machine without cvs or ssh). I presume that I'm not alone here.

Of course, so if there is a volunteer, to actually set it up, it should be done. For the PEP itself, somebody would have to contribute precise instructions how to setup websvn (what URLs, how does the Apache configuration read, etc).

If there are issues with it (stability, security, whatever), then I could understand making it optional, but otherwise I think it would be great if the PEP just included it.

There are security issues in the setup if you want to have non-public repositories (which then shouldn't be public through websvn, either). The pydotorg repository itself is non-public, but I don't know whether this would be an issue. Regards, Martin