On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 03:05, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Ned Deily <nad <at> 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 that the repo is no longer being updated with a link to the 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 These locations are also advertised on http://docs.python.org/py3k/documenting/building.html (that contains outdated info, but that's another story). Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
