[Python-Dev] View tracker patches with ViewVC? (original) (raw)

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Tue Jul 27 21:25:33 CEST 2010

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.

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