[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Fix closes Issue12722 - link heapq source in the text format in the

[Ezio Melotti]

On 11/08/2011 0.02, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 21:55, Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  wrote:
>>>      Latest version of the `heapq Python source code
>>>
>>> -<http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release27-maint/Lib/heapq.py?view=markup>`_
>>>
>>> +<http://svn.python.org/view/*checkout*/python/branches/release27-maint/Lib/heapq.py?content-type=text%2Fplain>`_
>> Should links be to the hg repository instead of svn?
>> Is svn updated from hg?
>> I thought is was (mostly) historical read-only.
> I made the same remark to Senthil on IRC, and came out that web
> frontend for hg.p.o doesn't allow for a nice way to specify a branch
> (different than 'default'), it's something like
> hg.python.org/cpython/<last cset id on a given branch>/path/to/file.py
> which is almost always outdated :)

hg.python.org/cpython/2.7/path/to/file.py should work just fine.

IIRC the reason why we don't do it on 2.x is because we don't have the 
'source' directive available in Sphinx and therefore we would have to 
update all the links manually to link to h.p.o instead of s.p.o.

Best Regards,
Ezio Melotti

>
> What do we use to provide the web part of hg.p.o? maybe we can just
> ask the developers of this tool to provide (or advertize) a proper way
> to select a branch. If some can provide me some info, I can do the
> "ask the devs" part.
>
> Cheers,