[Docutils-develop] [docutils:patches] Re: #189 Remove 'prest'

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

> I didn't realise moving to Git had been agreed!

There is agreement that using Git for version control is fine --- if done right.
There is no consensus on a possible new host nor on a timeline. 
My suggestion is in the [To Do List](https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/dev/todo.html#repository).



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** [patches:#189] Remove 'prest'**

**Status:** open
**Group:** None
**Created:** Thu Jan 06, 2022 02:23 PM UTC by Adam  Turner
**Last Updated:** Thu Jan 06, 2022 06:13 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


xref sourceforge.net/p/docutils/mailman/message/36748625 -- an earlier attempt.

It has now been 11 years (08/12/2010), and no changes. The code will remain in the souce control history should anyone want to revive it.

The first commit removes all the files under /prest and the second removes a final reference in the docs.

This code was quite confusing to me when I was first looking throuh the Docutils source tree - I hestitated to contribute for a while as I thought I might need to know Perl or need to translate any contributions. 

As a current contributor, when searching through the full codebase, there are spurious results from prest that are annoying -- not insurmountable, but a common annoyance, and I think dropping this would solve both issues of clarity (Docutils is purely a Python project) and developer experience.

A

https://github.com/AA-Turner/docutils/pull/5 // https://github.com/AA-Turner/docutils/pull/5.patch


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