On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:02:17PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:50:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I believe package management utilities are allowed to omit the short > > description in favor of the long one for interface considerations. > > Why, though? What good does it do? The long description is already > long (hence the name), so using one more line to add the short > description won't hurt anything. And writing good descriptions > is a lot easier if you can assume the long description will be > read in the context provided by the package name and the short > description.
Just because it can be redondant or ugly. In fact, either we insist that long description are meant to be always be displayed with the short or never: Description: Documentation for an array processing package for Python This package contains the manual in PDF format. Without the short description, the long description say nothing Description: Emacs-lisp python-mode for the scripting language Python (v2.2) Emacs-lisp python-mode for the scripting language Python (v2.2). If you install this with XEmacs 20 or 21, it will replace the included python-mode.el, which may or may not be a more recent version (use "C-h v py-version" to compare). The short description is just redondant. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
