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

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Wed Jun 29 10:25:42 CEST 2011

In article <BANLkTik4FKv-=704ua0SmdFj4ab4X5UVdQ at mail.gmail.com>, Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 03:05, Vinay Sajip <vinaysajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Ned Deily <nad acm.org> writes: >> 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 that the repo is no longer being updated with a link to the 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? > At least some of the stuff in the SVN repo is still needed, AFAICT. I > recently > did a build of the Python Windows binary installer, and I understand (from > the > buildbot instructions) that the best source of some of the external > dependencies > (bz2, Tcl/Tk, openssl etc.) is still the SVN repo.

SVN is also used to fetch third-party tools to build documentation, such as: sphinx, docutils, jinja, and pygments. These locations are also advertised on http://docs.python.org/py3k/documenting/building.html (that contains outdated info, but that's another story).

Yes, by "for python", I meant the active python development "branches" (py3k->default, 3.2, 2.7).

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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