Re: Easier access to diffs, etc.

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Mar 13, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:

> 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?


Yes, but only if I define "the right thing" to be to redirect you back to the datatracker interface -- I guess I could claim that this is the right thing to do because it provides entertainment, especially if you are (like me) easily entertained…

I will get around to spinning a new version soon that deals with this. I originally wrote this for personal use only, and so it is not particularity polished…

W



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> RjS
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> On 3/13/12 3:10 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
>> On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.)
>>> 
>>> 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. :-)
>>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 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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>> W
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>>> 	Thanks,
>>> 	Paul
>>> 
>>> On 3/13/12 1:08 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:08 +0100, Benoit Claise wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> So, to see the differences between the most recent rfc5101bis and the
>>>> original rfc5101, try this:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01.txt&url1=rfc5101
>>>> 
>>>> -- Jeff
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> --
>> Don't be impressed with unintelligible stuff said condescendingly.
>>     -- Radia Perlman.
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