Re: [pkg-discuss] format of pkg.description

2010-05-04 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/ 9/10 05:42 AM, Ghee Teo wrote: On 03/ 9/10 09:09 AM, Tim Foster wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 15:31 +, Ghee Teo wrote: Padraig has talked to me about including a more meaningful value for pkg.description in the IPS manifest for the Desktop packages. That is, something a bit more verbo

Re: [pkg-discuss] format of pkg.description

2010-03-09 Thread Bart Smaalders
On 03/09/10 01:09, Tim Foster wrote: This would open packages up to the transient nature of the internet though. We could avoid that by implementing a 'description' action, similar to the existing 'license' action, to allow package authors publish rich descriptions to the repository. Note that

Re: [pkg-discuss] format of pkg.description

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Ghee, On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 11:42 +, Ghee Teo wrote: > While this is an interesting suggestion, I think it is not a practical > solution for the following reasons: > - the description text while available is in the open but is it is not > readily referable by a URL, they are often capture

Re: [pkg-discuss] format of pkg.description

2010-03-09 Thread Ghee Teo
On 03/ 9/10 09:09 AM, Tim Foster wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 15:31 +, Ghee Teo wrote: Padraig has talked to me about including a more meaningful value for pkg.description in the IPS manifest for the Desktop packages. That is, something a bit more verbose than pkg.summary. Would a

Re: [pkg-discuss] format of pkg.description

2010-03-09 Thread Tim Foster
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 15:31 +, Ghee Teo wrote: > Padraig has talked to me about including a more meaningful value for > pkg.description in the IPS manifest for the Desktop packages. That is, > something a bit more verbose than pkg.summary. Would a pkg.description containing a URL be a better

Re: [pkg-discuss] format of pkg.description

2010-03-08 Thread Ghee Teo
On 03/ 8/10 03:43 PM, Danek Duvall wrote: Ghee Teo wrote: Can some one tell us what type of value can pkg.description take? In particular, can pkg.description contain newline in it? Can pkg.description take \n? What is the maximum size of pkg.description take? At the moment, newline

Re: [pkg-discuss] format of pkg.description

2010-03-08 Thread Danek Duvall
Ghee Teo wrote: > Can some one tell us what type of value can pkg.description take? > In particular, can pkg.description contain newline in it? > Can pkg.description take \n? > What is the maximum size of pkg.description take? At the moment, newlines are not possible, but any other UTF-8 charact

[pkg-discuss] format of pkg.description

2010-03-08 Thread Ghee Teo
Padraig has talked to me about including a more meaningful value for pkg.description in the IPS manifest for the Desktop packages. That is, something a bit more verbose than pkg.summary. Can some one tell us what type of value can pkg.description take? In particular, can pkg.description contain