Re: Easier access to diffs, etc.

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

Popping back in the thread several messages:

I agree that the announcement / revised-id messages should point to 
better places.

Warren's redirect is interesting. I've seen a suggestion that stopped 
just short of asking that
we configure www.ietf.org to do exactly that kind of redirect on 
/id/<blah>. That would
produce unexpected results.

One thing to keep in mind -  What if you really are looking for the .txt 
version of the document
(to feed into some other tool for instance). What link do you use?

Warren - Your plugin probably does the right thing, but if you haven't 
tested it already you might want
to check - if you have the default you point to below set to 
datatracker.ietf.org, does the right thing
happen when you click the "plain text" link in the first block of a 
datatracker's main view for a document?

RjS


On 3/13/12 3:10 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
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>> On a related note, I've been wishing that the I-D Action announcement messages provided more convenient access to info about the draft.
>> A link to the diff with the previous version would be nice,
>> as would a link to the html version of the document in the tools area (which in turn has links to all sorts of renditions of the doc.)
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>> I find that the link that is currently provided is rarely the one I want, so I'm always having to copy the name, and then search for the form I want. Its easier to just click. :-)
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> It you use Chrome, I have written an extension that does jus this…
> It is linked to from the Tools page (http://tools.ietf.org/), or a direct link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aiccdpabeagpjcebilebhlifplfkinao
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> This simply watches for a URL of the form http://www.ietf.org/id/foo-04.txt and replaces it with http://tools.ietf/org/html/foo (or, if you change the default in the options page, datatracker.ietf.org).
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>> 	Thanks,
>> 	Paul
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>> On 3/13/12 1:08 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:08 +0100, Benoit Claise wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
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>>>> I'm wondering how to do, with the IETF tools, a diff between a WG
>>>> document "RFC bis" and the "RFC" in the following example:
>>>>
>>>>       1. RFC 5101 was published
>>>>       2. And individual draft was published to update it
>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-claise-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-02
>>>>       3.
>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01 was
>>>> accepted as a WG document
>>>>
>>>> The tools
>>>> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01)
>>>> allows the diffs between the 2. and 3.. And I would like the automatic
>>>> diff between 1. and .3
>>>>
>>>> Any other ways than loading the different versions in
>>>> http://www.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/?
>>> As you probably know, the tools page for an internet-draft, like
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01
>>> includes links for jumping from one version to the next, and for showing
>>> the differences between the version you're viewing and the previous
>>> version.  When one document succeeds another, such as a WG document
>>> replacing an individual one or, in this case, the individual document
>>> being the start of a revision of RFC5101, those links inlcude the
>>> ability to jump from one document to the next, and to compare the first
>>> version of one document with the last version of the document before it.
>>>
>>> So, if you go to the page for draft-claise-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-00
>>> and click the "Diff1" link, you'll see differences in that document
>>> since RFC5101.
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>>> As far as I know, there is no "friendly" way to click on something and
>>> see differences between two documents that are not immediately adjacent
>>> versions.  However, you can fairly easily edit the URL to get what you
>>> want.  Simply bring up the diff page for the later document, and add
>>> "&url1=XXX" to the end of the URL, where XXX is the document you want to
>>> compare against.  Acceptable forms include draft-foo-bar-00 and rfcXXXX.
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>>> So, to see the differences between the most recent rfc5101bis and the
>>> original rfc5101, try this:
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>>> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01.txt&url1=rfc5101
>>>
>>> -- Jeff
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