[python-committers] Keyword expansion in online PEPs

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 05, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

>>>  Clearly,
>>> keywords are not getting expanded in the online version of the PEP:
>>> 
>>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0396/
>
>They seem to be now (but I don't know who or what changed).

But not correctly.

PEP:	396
Title:	Module Version Numbers
Version:	65628
Last-Modified:	2008-08-10 09:59:20 -0400 (Sun, 10 Aug 2008)

>>> and while I'm not sure if .hg/hgrc is version controlled in
>>> ssh://hg@hg.python.org/peps, the file there definitely does not have the
>>> keyword extension enabled.
>
>Yes, because that's not the clone where the PEPs are built; that one is in
>/data/website-build/build/peps, and it has the keyword ext enabled.

I see, cool.

>>>  This pages recommends it be enabled only per-repo,
>>> not globally:
>>> 
>>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/KeywordExtension
>>> 
>>> I think we want keywords to be expanded in the online version of the PEPs.
>>> How can we make that happen and what do PEP authors need to do?
>
>There shouldn't be anything necessary for PEP authors.

Sounds good.

>> Related to this, I think that the website cronjob updating the PEP
>> is no longer running, or at least it appears so...
>> 
>> Several PEPs still have links to the SVN repo and some of them
>> give a 404 when trying to fetch the .txt file:
>> 
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/ (SVN, Last-modified link works)
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0385/ (SVN, Last-modified link works)
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0396/ (SVN, 404)
>> 
>> Others point to the HG repo, like probably all PEPs pages should:
>> 
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0100/ (HG)
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ (HG, but gives an error)
>
>Not sure why, especially not why it's like that for PEP 396, which only was
>added after the switch and therefore the SVN link is broken.
>
>The website build is such a horrid twisty maze of hooks, suid binaries,
>scripts, cronjobs and scripts again that I gave up trying to force a full
>rebuild of all PEPs, which I thought would have replaced all At one point I
>assu

The PSU does *not* exist.

-Barry
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