[Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 09:09:36 CET 2006

On 2/13/06, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:

On Monday 13 February 2006 10:03, Georg Brandl wrote: > The above docs are from August 2005 while docs.python.org/dev is current. > Shouldn't the old docs be removed?

I'm afraid I've generally been too busy to chime in much on this topic, but I've spent a bit of time thinking about it, and would like to keep on top of the issue still.

Fred,

While you are here, are you planning to do the doc releases for 2.5? You are tentatively listed in PEP 356. (Technically it says TBD with a ? next to your name.)

The automatically-maintained version of the development docs is certainly preferrable to the manually-maintained-by-me version, and I've updated the link from www.python.org/doc/ to refer to that version for now. However, I do have some concerns about how this is all structured still.

I think this was the quick hack I did. I hope there are many concerns. :-) For example, if the doc build fails, ... Hmmm, this probably isn't a problem. The doc won't be updated, but will still be the last good version. So if I send mail when the doc doesn't build, then it might not be so bad. Will have to test this. I still need to switch over the failure mails to go to python-checkins. There are too many right now though. Unless people don't mind getting several messages about refleaks every day? Anyone?

What I would also like to see is to have an automatically-updated version for each of the maintainer versions of Python, as well as the development trunk. That would mean two versions at this point (2.4.x, 2.5.x); only one of those is currently handled automatically.

That shouldn't be a problem. See http://docs.python.org/dev/2.4/

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