Søren Hauberg wrote: > ons, 10 02 2010 kl. 00:09 +0100, skrev David Bateman: > >> Another nice feature of the old site was the link on the >> function pages to the SVN/HG repository copy of the file containing the >> definition of the function. This made quickly check the code easy from >> the octave-forge web site. >> > > I've been thinking a bit about how to bring back this feature as it was > also something I really liked. I don't think it would be too hard to add > this feature for m-files, but I fear that it will require some huge > hacks to get it working for built-ins and oct-files. Personally, I > mostly used the feature exactly for built-ins and oct-files :-( > > My main motivations for changing the release system was > > 1. Allow maintainers to decide when packages get released. > 2. Lower the maintenance burden. > > I fear that if we add a bunch of hacks to get this feature back, then we > will quickly end up in the same maintenance mess as with the old system. > > Søren > > Those that implement the feature get to choose, so I'm fine with this..
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