[DB-SIG] PEP249 - Proposed change to DB-API 2.0

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Dr. Dieter Maurer" wrote:
> 
> M.-A. Lemburg writes:
>  > Greg Stein wrote:
>  > >
>  > > btw, why was the spec changed from its nice HTML format to the plain old
>  > > text format? Was that mainly to get it into the PEP area so that more people
>  > > could change it? so that we could track changes? etc?
>  >
>  > The latter... PEPs can be tracked using CVS, diffs, etc. this has
>  > many advantages over HTML. Another advantage is making the spec
>  > more visible, since PEPs sort of define the directions of development.
> You might consider a "Structured Text" view on PEP's.
> 
> It would provide the advantages of text with respect to change tracking
> but nevertheless could be view comfortably with an HTML browser.
> 
> The current Structured Text version has some problems with
> rendering, but many might be overcome with StructuredTextNG.

Would the "Structured Text" view be different than what we already
have on SourceForge (http://python.sourceforge.net) ?

The tool for generating HTML out of PEPs was written by Fredrik
Lundh and does a pretty clean job, IMHO.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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