Of chickens, eggs, and shadows thereof

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

On 19/06/2009, at 22.41, Cedric Duval wrote:

> Cedric Duval wrote:
>> Here is a proof of concept for a listing of all available (and  
>> loadable)
>> extensions. Comments on the approach and the code much welcome.
>
> To sum up the received feedback: loading that way may run code, so at
> least should be ensured that things shipped in hgext/ are sane. So  
> this
> is not material for 1.3, but rather an idea to be re-visited later.
>
> I'll try to address the rest (shadowed help).

I just tried writing a small script that uses the ‘pydoc’ module to  
read summaries from the modules, without loading them. To my surprise,  
it worked :) I had to change all the extensions to start delimit their  
docstrings with """ rather than ''', though. But still, it works!

I've attached it below in the form of a patch against Mercurial. The  
patch changes docstrings and adds the script, but that's about it.

--

Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
danchr at gmail.com

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