version number discrepancies

[Phillip M. Feldman]

The Python Package Index lists the current version of xlrd as 0.7.7.
When I
follow the documentation link and go to
https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlrd/trunk/xlrd/doc/xlrd.html,
however, that document lists a version number of 0.7.3. When I go to
http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm, I see a version number of
0.6.1. It
would be helpful if these discrepant version numbers could be
reconciled. Also,
if there have been any changes to the functionality, the documentation
in
https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlrd/trunk/xlrd/doc/xlrd.html
should be
brought up to date.

Phillip

[Chris Withers]

On 03/06/2012 18:26, Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
> The Python Package Index lists the current version of xlrd as 0.7.7.
> When I
> follow the documentation link and go to
> https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlrd/trunk/xlrd/doc/xlrd.html,
> however, that document lists a version number of 0.7.3. When I go to
> http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm, I see a version number of
> 0.6.1.

The documentation is somewhat in a state of flux at the moment.
The move to GitHub has, unfortunately, meant we can't serve html
straight out of source control anymore.

I'm hoping to get some time to work on this, in the meantime, if you
could file an issue in the xlrd tracker, it would be help me not forget.

Of course, if anyone knows how I can get github to serve up html from a
url into the source control, please do let me know.

> It
> would be helpful if these discrepant version numbers could be
> reconciled.

There's not discrepancy, the Subversion source control has been retired
and the documentation link is arguably wrong.

> Also,
> if there have been any changes to the functionality, the documentation
> in
> https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlrd/trunk/xlrd/doc/xlrd.html
> should be
> brought up to date.

Patches via the GitHub fork-and-pull mechanism gratefully received.
That said, I believe the changes have pretty much all been bug fixes
with no change in api.

cheers,

Chris

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[Thomas Kluyver]

On Wednesday, 6 June 2012 07:03:44 UTC+1, Chris Withers wrote:

Of course, if anyone knows how I can get github to serve up html from a
url into the source control, please do let me know.

Have you come across github pages? It would give you an HTML site at python-excel.github.com

https://help.github.com/articles/user-organization-and-project-pages

Thomas

[Chris Withers]

Hi Thomas,

On 06/06/2012 17:32, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 June 2012 07:03:44 UTC+1, Chris Withers wrote:
>
> Of course, if anyone knows how I can get github to serve up html from a
> url into the source control, please do let me know.
>
>
> Have you come across github pages? It would give you an HTML site at
> python-excel.github.com

We already have http://www.python-excel.org for that kind of thing.

To illustrate the problem, contrast:

https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlrd/trunk/xlrd/doc/xlrd.html

...with:

https://raw.github.com/python-excel/xlrd/master/xlrd/doc/xlrd.html

With svn, you can set the content type of a file to text/html and the
server will just serve it as html correctly. Git/GitHub don't support that.

I have ideas how to solve that, but they're tied to the wider
Sphinxification of the docs.