2009/8/26 Nélson «VuDu» Cunha <vudu.cu...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > following the weird titled "AUR webpage" thread ( > http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/thread.html#5602 > ) I think the way maintainers handle their packages could have some > things simplified. > > I agree that simple updates to PKGBUILDs should be easier. > I've seen many packages with typos in PKGBUILDs, showing that the > extra workload of having to archive the files and upload them doesn't > necessary make users test things before uploading. That's all up to > the maintainer's will to do things right. > > I think having a simple syntax highlighted code editor to quick edit > the PKGBUILD or at least a way to simply update the PKGBUILD without > having to archive and upload everything every time would be a great > help. > > Some alternatives google gave me, dunno if there are any better: > http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter > http://codepress.sourceforge.net/ > http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/ > http://helene.muze.nl/ > > > What do you think? >
Nah, doesn't seem very kiss to me. IMO if you want something easier to use create a tool to allow uploading from the cli. Ronald
