On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:37:53PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 17:12 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:42:19AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > The idea of making packages.d.o appearance and behaviour configurable > > via cookies is on my "to be considered" list for quite a while already, > > yeah. I've mostly refrained from changing the default behaviour too > > much, though. > > Since I'm cleaning up wiki.d.o, i've noticed how easily people get > confused... let me raise an issue : > > Let's imagine a user X sends an URL to user Y, which has different > preference, therefore they both get a different page. > Of course, the result for packages.d.o/pkgname could actually be an HTTP > redirection to packages.d.o/mydist/pkgname, based on the user > preference. User X would have sent the URL packages.d.o/mydist/pkgname > in this case.
Yeah. It definetly would be a HTTP redirect. Everything else would just be "evil". > Also, the current behaviour has something nice : by default, people see > that stable,testing and unstable have different version, even without > having to click anywhere. A similar result could be obtained by listing > alternatives in a sidebar. > BTW, it would be nice if distributions shipping the same version could > be grouped visually. Patches welcome. Sounds like a nice idea but someone would have to come up with the HTML and CSS... > > As for your suggestion: Your specification is incomplete. Currently > > there are at least four different things that might happen if you > > visit p.d.o/<string>: > > 1) You only get an exact hit > > 2) You get an exact hit plus some substring matches > > 3) You only get substring matches > > 4) You don't get any hits > > Does your proposal only concern case 1 or case 1 and 2? > > Finally, the point 4 could be tricky to handle : if a user choose to > display unstable, but the package isn't available anymore, what would be > the best result ? We should just improve the current error page so that this question becomes a nobrainer... (Patches welcome...) FWIW my first use for a user configuration would be to replace the current source package page with the PTS page... I think it would be somewhat frightening to the casual user but for developers there really isn't a good reason to ever use the current source package page over the PTS page. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
