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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:37:36
Message-Id: 20120313113628.4d411dd3@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format by Brian Dolbec
1 On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:33:28 -0700
2 Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > The proper form of an irc url is in my example
5 > "irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis" and I took it from gentoo's irc
6 > channel page at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml .
7
8 Exactly. Most web browsers would know what to do with that, too.
9
10 > That would mean limiting a single <irc></irc> field to just valid
11 > url's just like the <homepage></homepage> field.
12 >
13 > <irc>irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis</irc>
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15 Why not go with a slight variant of the venerable <a href> format?
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17 <irc uri="irc://irc.example.com/gentoo-guis">Your support channel
18 is here</irc>
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20 Either that or use two tags, <uri> and <description> nested in an <irc>
21 tag?
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24 jer