[Python-Dev] View tracker patches with ViewVC?

[Eric Smith]

> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> ..
>> I agree with Terry that this would be a useful feature to have
>> integrated
>> with the tracker. I'd use it. But until someone write it, it's an
>> academic
>> point.
>
> I don't say it is useless.

And I never said you said that :)

> It is just not useful enough to justify
> the required development effort.   A low hanging fruit in this area
> would be to teach the tracker to recognize diffs regardless of file
> extension and present them as text/plain.  For me that would give 99%
> of the benefit a full-blown diff-to-html converter may bring.

That would be sort of handy, but detecting a diff is of course
problematic. I'd rather have the viewvc sort of view, but it's moot until
someone does the work. I don't want it bad enough to write it.