Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format

2012-03-13 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 08:49 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:52:20PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote: eg: ircChannel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network/irc or irc#gentoo-guis on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format

2012-03-13 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:33:28 -0700 Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote: The proper form of an irc url is in my example irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis and I took it from gentoo's irc channel page at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml . Exactly. Most web browsers would know what to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format

2012-03-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:33:28AM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: ... and just when I was beginning to think no one actually cared :) ... I specifically wanted to avoid any special regex to pull data out of the XML. Merging fields is acceptable, splitting them based on regex isn't. The proper form

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format

2012-03-12 Thread Kent Fredric
On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote: eg:    ircChannel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network/irc or    irc#gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network, irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis/irc Though a freeform text field is probably better for humans, I'd suggest having

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format

2012-03-12 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:52:20PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote: eg: ?? ??ircChannel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network/irc or ?? ??irc#gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network, irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis/irc

[gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format

2012-03-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
As times have changed and IRC is used more an more. I propose adding an optional irc/irc data field to layman's repositories.xml file format. This information would be listed along with the other information when running: # layman -i some-overlay This added information would then be available