On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 15:31 +0000, Ghee Teo wrote:
> Padraig has talked to me about including a more meaningful value for
> pkg.description in the IPS manifest for the Desktop packages. That is,
> something a bit more verbose than pkg.summary.
Would a pkg.description containing a URL be a better way of providing
this level of detail? If the description was a URL, the GUI could
render the page that URL pointed to. If pkg.description didn't contain a
URL, it could word-wrap and inline the text value.
> I am thinking of pulling in these data from the open as much as I can
> instead of writing hundred of these by hands. So the data is pretty much
> depend on what I can pull from the open.
If you're pulling the data externally, it suggests there's already a
source for this information (albeit one out of our control) Using that
source, rather than just duplicating its contents may be better.
This would open packages up to the transient nature of the internet
though. We could avoid that by implementing a 'description' action,
similar to the existing 'license' action, to allow package authors
publish rich descriptions to the repository.
With URLs pointing to internet resources, it would be difficult to
search the text of those descriptions from 'pkg search' and would make
life difficult for those on private networks (though of course, standard
internet search engines would have indexed them already)
cheers,
tim
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