[Python-Dev] svn.python.org confusion (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Jun 28 18:45:44 CEST 2011

On 28/06/2011 17:37, Ned Deily wrote:

Not surprisingly, people are still attempting to browse and/or checkout Python source from svn.python.org. They could be following out-of-date instructions from somewhere or might be expecting the svn repos are mirroring the hg ones. This causes wasted time and frustration for users and for us following up on issues.

Could some text be added to the svn browser pages to at least indicate that the repo is no longer being updated with a link to the hg.python.org browser? I'm not sure what to do about the repos themselves if people attempt to do an svn co. Perhaps that should just be disabled totally for python? For what it's worth we've had a couple of emails about this to webmaster at python.org (in particular because the viewc svn browser breaks on some latin-1 in source files).

All the best,

Michael Foord

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