On 19/8/2004 4:51 PM, Michèle Garoche at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Also, in the 2nd example, all the point distros (0.7.0, 0.6.3, 0.4.1) show 'not present' for unstable in the passwd example used. If I understand correctly, the binary distributions never have an unstable version, so the 2nd example will always have extraneous cells showing 'not present'.
IMHO this is A Good Thing™. It would prevent people from asking FAQ#5.7.
It could be solved with an 'NA' text.
Yes, but why even show it in the first place if it can never happen anyway?
People looking at one or two packages in the database (which I would guess is what most people do) don't know what can or cannot happen for the other packages. It also leaves the possibility open of a future unstable bindist that has been discussed on and off.
People who don't know what's going on will then start asking "why is it not present/NA" and we'll end up needing another FAQ entry :)
There are such FAQ entries, but anyway questions of the type "I know this exists and the package database/FinkCommander shows it, but Fink doesn't let me install it" are more much more frequent than "Fink shows that this does not exists, I would like to know why".
But after having defended some advantages of the second option, I agree with this:
I actually much prefer the first option. Each OS version has a single line, making it very clear what's going on, and no need for unnecessary "not present" entries. I don't think the first option looks too "busy" at all.
The first option uses the screen real estate better. The column headers that are somewhat too heavy could be made lighter by replacing the two-liners "stable<br>version" and "unstable<br>version" by just "stable" and "unstable". It is clear at this point that the numbers in the columns refer to versions.
Also, as has been suggested, some color would be useful, for example like here:
http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/martin.costabel/fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/test/passwd.html
-- Martin
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