Jon Turney writes: > I think currently UTF-8 displays correctly in the HTML package pages, > but neither encoding displays correctly in setup. > > I'd suggest that we specify UTF-8 and eventually fix setup to handle that.
UTF-8 these days, please. > I'd suggest this mangling is removed, and sdesc starting > "packagename:" is explicitly reported. OK. > I'd suggest that double-quoting of those keys is made mandatory, and > embedded double-quotes are forbidden, as this permits simpler > processing of this text, lexing character by character. OK, although we might need some sort of escaping in the long run. > upset knows enough to omit packages which have no install tarfiles > (i.e. are source-only) from from setup.ini, irrespective of 'skip'. > > However, the presence of 'skip' also causes the package to be omitted > from the HTML package list. I could be wrong, but it seems it may have been intended to deal with packages that became obsolete, but the previous version was still kept. > I think cygport's behaviour has changed over time, but currently will > mark source-packages as 'skip', however there are several packages > that are source-only (e.g. attica), that are missing 'skip'. So the proposal is to remove skip or make it mandatory for source-only packages? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada