[csw-maintainers] http://www.opencsw.org/packages/<pkg>: Add GAR build recipe URL to package page?

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Fri Nov 5 21:58:26 CET 2010


Hi Phil,

Am 05.11.2010 um 16:44 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On 11/5/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> A side note, this idea is already implemented in the package details
>> browser, for instance:
>> [....]
>> Contains:
>> 
>> ==Build source code==
>> 
>> https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/nspr/trunk@11305
>> 
> 
> That brings up a side issue.
> 
> the url may be svn-friendly. but its not really WEB friendly.
> (it is an INVALID url, if you just drop it into your browser!)
> 
> Any user-friendly web display, in my opinion, should first give a
> web-browsable url. and then if appropriate, mention something like,
> "oh and if you want to use svn to check out the specific revision, use
>  svn co  [url-here]"

Definitely. That's why there are two URLs given. This is human-readable one:
  http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/pkg/nspr/trunk/Makefile?rev=11305

Best regards

  -- Dago


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