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On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:42:59 +0100 |
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Johannes Huber <johu@g.o> wrote: |
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> Am Mittwoch 16 März 2016, 19:43:21 schrieb Michał Górny: |
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> > Hello, all. |
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> > |
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> > Long story short: while working on various metadata.xml-related |
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> > aspects, it bite us pretty hard that we lack proper spec for |
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> > metadata.xml file. What we have is pretty much the DTD, some partial |
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> > GLEPs (that sometimes provide incorrect info) and random bugs. ml |
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> > posts... |
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> > |
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> > Therefore, I've been slowly writing a proper GLEP that would describe |
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> > all of metadata.xml in detail. Here's the current draft for review: |
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> > |
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> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:68 |
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> Hello Michal, |
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> just a crazy idea came to my mind: How about to add HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION |
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> from ebuild to metadata.xml. So that this duplicated info in ebuilds can be |
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> dropped in future EAPI? |
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It's outside the scope of what I'm doing and it's controversial. I'd |
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rather not delay clarifying the format for future ideas, especially |
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considering that there was no success so far in moving this one |
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forward. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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