Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-23 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Stuart, Stuart Henderson wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 08:21:45AM +0100: > On 2022/06/22 08:05, Landry Breuil wrote: >> Le Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 07:59:45PM +0100, Stuart Henderson a écrit : >>> On 2022/06/21 17:46, Solène wrote: Such a database could be integrated into AppManager maybe. I

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022/06/22 08:05, Landry Breuil wrote: > Le Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 07:59:45PM +0100, Stuart Henderson a écrit : > > On 2022/06/21 17:46, Solène wrote: > > > Such a database could be integrated into AppManager maybe. I wonder if > > > repology or a similar package database could provide pictures we

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-21 Thread Landry Breuil
Le Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 07:59:45PM +0100, Stuart Henderson a écrit : > On 2022/06/21 17:46, Solène wrote: > > Such a database could be integrated into AppManager maybe. I wonder if > > repology or a similar package database could provide pictures we could > > reuse (after hosting it somewhere else

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022/06/21 17:46, Solène wrote: > Such a database could be integrated into AppManager maybe. I wonder if > repology or a similar package database could provide pictures we could > reuse (after hosting it somewhere else if licence allows this) If done, it would certainly make sense for this to b

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-21 Thread Thomas Dettbarn
Hello Marc! Just a small reminder... What I was proposing was a text file with a bunch of entries like this: URL=https://dettus.net/dMagnetic/sixel_mag_jinxter.png SHA256=1bb9fc3e1b0878c3d9afc8e7c35c62e848ec6e1d52f179c915282b2d8ad82bf2 PERMIT_WEBSITE=yes You mentioned another aspect which I have

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-21 Thread Thomas Dettbarn
> Stuart Henderson hat am 20.06.2022 08:51 CEST > geschrieben: > And potentially a bunch of diffs, some of which will be mangled, > trickled in piece by piece, that somebody needs to keep track of and > check and commit.. Yes, but only if my proposal is a rousing success. :) Thomas

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-21 Thread Marc Espie
Some fairly stupid issues with this: - Size. I assume screenshots are going to be under pkg/ this will make the ports tree several times larger. - Otherwise, where do we host them ? and that makes fetching more annoying. - *if* we put the screenshots under CVS control, that means having to fiddle w

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2022/06/18 23:53, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: > At most my proposal would lead to a new paragraph within the > porter's handbook. And potentially a bunch of diffs, some of which will be mangled, trickled in piece by piece, that somebody needs to keep track of and check and commit..

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-18 Thread Thomas Dettbarn
Hello Stuart, Hello Mikhail. Thank you very much for your feedback. You mentioned an aspect which I have completely overlooked in my proposal: EFFORT. To me, adding a handful of URLs and SHA256 sums seems negligible. Plus, I envisioned the pkg/SCREENSHOTS file as something optional, not mandato

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
sorry, I think adding references to screenshots is going to be way too much work for the limited number of porters we have to handle - it's tricky enough to handle regular updates and helping new people learn the ropes; handling diffs and commits to get this into the ports tree will take a lot of o

Re: ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-18 Thread Mikhail
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: > Hello. > > Hopefully this is the correct mailinglist for a proposal like this. > And hopefully you have not already had this discussion before. > In which case, I would like to apologize. > > Anyways, I have a proposal, to make Op

ports: pkg/SCREENSHOTS proposal

2022-06-18 Thread Thomas Dettbarn
Hello. Hopefully this is the correct mailinglist for a proposal like this. And hopefully you have not already had this discussion before. In which case, I would like to apologize. Anyways, I have a proposal, to make OpenBSD, the OS that I love, maybe a little bit cuter. # VISION I was thinkin