[IronPython] Better source code access?

[David Fraser]

Nicholas Riley wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:45:10AM -0800, Martin Maly wrote:
>   
>> We did talk to the CodePlex team and it turns out that they
>> consciously impose this limitation. Only the members of the
>> Contributor/Developer group have access to the server via the Team
>> Explorer. Since we talked to them last, we haven't heard any update
>> on this so I presume this limitation has not gone away and probably
>> won't in the foreseeable future.
>>     
>
> Thanks for checking.
>
>   
>> If there's no other choice I could download the zip files for each
>> revision, check them in somewhere else and make the repository
>> available for public browsing.
>>     
>
> I imported the data into Mercurial.
>
>   <http://vali.cs.uiuc.edu:8080/>
>
> Note that I didn't account for the branching in the repo that happened
> at some point, but this still should be a lot more useful than the
> browser on the CodePlex site.
This is great - I tried but failed to extract the repository a while ago
- did you reconstruct this from the zip files or how did you do it?
Do you have a means of automating this so that it keeps up to date, or
is that done already? :-)

Cheers
David