WIP improve linking and formatting

docs/html/development/architecture/anatomy.rst

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The ``README``, license, ``pyproject.toml``, ``setup.py``, and so on are in the
 * ``docs/`` *[documentation, built with Sphinx]*
 
   * ``html/`` *[sources to HTML documentation avail. online]*
-  * ``man/`` *[man pages the distros can use by running ``man pip``]*
+  * ``man/`` has man pages the distros can use by running ``man pip``
   * ``pip_sphinxext.py`` *[an extension -- pip-specific plugins to Sphinx that do not apply to other packages]*
 
 * ``news/`` *[pip stores news fragments… Every time pip makes a user-facing change, a file is added to this directory (usually a short note referring to a GitHub issue) with the right extension & name so it gets included in release notes…. So every release the maintainers will be deleting old files in this directory? Yes - we use the towncrier automation to generate a NEWS file, and auto-delete old stuff. There’s more about this in the contributor documentation!]*
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The ``README``, license, ``pyproject.toml``, ``setup.py``, and so on are in the
 
 * ``src/`` *[source; see below]*
 * ``tasks/`` *[invoke is a PyPI library which uses files in this directory to define automation commands that are used in pip’s development processes -- not discussing further right now. For instance, automating the release.]*
-* ``tests/`` *[contains tests you can run. There are instructions in pip’s Getting Started guide! Which Pradyun wrote!!!!!]*
+* ``tests/`` -- contains tests you can run. There are instructions in :doc:`../getting-started`.
 
   * ``__init__.py``
   * ``conftest.py``
@@ -86,14 +86,14 @@ Within ``src/``:
     * ``index.py``
     * ``locations.py``
     * ``models/`` *[in-process refactoring! Goal: improve how pip internally models representations it has for data -- data representation. General overall cleanup. Data reps are spread throughout codebase….link is defined in a class in 1 file, and then another file imports Link from that file. Sometimes cyclic dependency?!?! To prevent future situations like this, etc., Pradyun started moving these into a models directory.]*
-    * ``operations/`` -- a bit of a weird directory….. Freeze.py used to be in there. Freeze is an operation -- there was an operations.freeze. Then “prepare” got added (the operation of preparing a pkg). Then “check” got added for checking the state of an env.] [what’s a command vs an operation? Command is on CLI; an operation would be an internal bit of code that actually does some subset of the operation the command says. ``install`` command uses bits of ``check`` and ``prepare``, for instance. In the long run, Pradyun’s goal: ``prepare.py`` goes away (gets refactored into other files) such that ``operations`` is just ``check`` and ``freeze``..... … Pradyun plans to refactor this. [how does this compare to ``utils``?]
-    * ``pep425tags.py`` *[getting refactored into packaging.tags (a library on PyPI) which is external to pip (but vendored by pip). :pep:`425` tags: turns out lots of people want this! Compatibility tags for built distributions -> e.g., platform, Python version, etc.]*
-    * ``pyproject.py`` *[pyproject.toml is a new standard (:pep:`518` and :pep:`517`). This file reads pyproject.toml and passes that info elsewhere. The rest of the processing happens in a different file. All the handling for 517 and 518 is in a different file.]*
+    * ``operations/`` -- a bit of a weird directory….. ``Freeze.py`` used to be in there. Freeze is an operation -- there was an operations.freeze. Then “prepare” got added (the operation of preparing a pkg). Then “check” got added for checking the state of an env.] [what’s a command vs an operation? Command is on CLI; an operation would be an internal bit of code that actually does some subset of the operation the command says. ``install`` command uses bits of ``check`` and ``prepare``, for instance. In the long run, Pradyun’s goal: ``prepare.py`` goes away (gets refactored into other files) such that ``operations`` is just ``check`` and ``freeze``..... … Pradyun plans to refactor this. [how does this compare to ``utils``?]
+    * ``pep425tags.py`` -- getting refactored into packaging.tags (a library on PyPI) which is external to pip (but vendored by pip). :pep:`425` tags: turns out lots of people want this! Compatibility tags for built distributions -> e.g., platform, Python version, etc.
+    * ``pyproject.py`` -- ``pyproject.toml`` is a new standard (:pep:`518` and :pep:`517`). This file reads pyproject.toml and passes that info elsewhere. The rest of the processing happens in a different file. All the handling for 517 and 518 is in a different file.
     * ``req/`` *[*\ **A DIRECTORY THAT NEEDS REFACTORING. A LOT**\ *\ …… Remember Step 3? Dependency resolution etc.? This is that step! Each file represents … have the entire flow of installing & uninstalling, getting info about packages…. Some files here are more than 1,000 lines long! (used to be longer?!) Refactor will deeply improve developer experience.]*
     * ``resolve.py`` -- This is where the current dependency resolution algorithm sits. Pradyun is `improving the pip dependency resolver`_. Pradyun will get rid of this file and replace it with a directory called “resolution”. (this work is in git master…. There is further work that is going to be in a branch soon)
     * ``utils/`` *[everything that is not “operationally” pip ….. Misc functions and files get dumped. There’s some organization here. There’s a models.py here which needs refactoring. Deprecation.py is useful, as are other things, but some things do not belong here. There ought to be some GitHub issues for refactoring some things here. Maybe a few issues with checkbox lists.]*
     * ``vcs/`` *[stands for Version Control System. Where pip handles all version control stuff -- one of the ``pip install`` arguments you can use is a version control link. Are any of these commands vendored? No, via subprocesses. For performance, it makes sense (we think) to do this instead of pygitlib2 or similar -- and has to be pure Python, can’t include C libraries, because you can’t include compiled C stuff, because you might not have it for the platform you are running on.]*
-    * ``wheel.py`` *[file that manages installation of a wheel file. This handles unpacking wheels -- “unpack and spread”. There is a package on PyPI called ``wheel`` that builds wheels -- do not confuse it with this.]*
+    * ``wheel.py`` is a file that manages installation of a wheel file. This handles unpacking wheels -- “unpack and spread”. There is a package on PyPI called ``wheel`` that builds wheels -- do not confuse it with this.
 
   * ``_vendor/`` *[code from other packages -- pip’s own dependencies…. Has them in its own source tree, because pip cannot depend on pip being installed on the machine already!]*