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

[Adam T. <aa-...@us...>]

Replying to Günter Milde

> There is agreement that using Git for version control is fine --- if done right.

Of course, and changing something to lead to a worse outcome is pointless.

> There is no consensus on a possible new host nor on a timeline. 

Would it help if somebody wrote up a discussion document (not as formal as a PEP!)?

I would be prepared to do so myself if you'd find it useful, but equally there may be other important things you'd rather do first. Let me know either way, I'm just happy to help wherever's best :) 

> My suggestion is in the To Do List.

I've just read through that and it makes sense -- very much agree with David's comments. You can also use a tool such as git-filter-repo ( https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo ) for history rewriting. https://gist.github.com/tony/c5ebdc02a5c58e34956d seems to be fairly comprehensive too.  (More pointing out alternatives rather than a concrete proposal -- as I said above, I'm happy to be patient if needed!)

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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 09:15 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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