-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tobias Scherbaum yazmış: > Jan Kundrát: >> Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: >>> I have a very quick proposal: why don't we move the packages' homepage >>> in metadata.xml (since it's usually unique for all the versions) >> I believe the reason was that HOMEPAGE might change with new versions >> and that metadata.xml didn't (doesn't?) support version-specific data. > > In most (nearly all?) cases a HOMEPAGE change does also affect older versions. > Does someone have an example where older versions stay at an old homepage > and newer versions moved to a new homepage? Which (and how many) packages > would be affected by that? > > If this does affect a larger number of packages (i doubt so) we might add > something like this: > <link type="homepage:old">http://package.oldbarfoo.org</link> > or we allow more than 1 homepage item to be specified of which we can > use the title attribute to describe for which versions this homepage > item applies. Anyways, all of these would only be quick hacks for a > rather short timeframe which it takes to stable a new version and remove > the older one. > > In general I do like that proposal, especially the addition of further > links for bug trackers, forums, irc-channels, gentoo-specific > documentation and so on. > > Tobias
I don't know if there are others but I can give one specific example, sun-{jdk,jre-bin} where homepage differs in SLOT's 1.4 pointing to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/ , 1.5 to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ , 1.6 to http://java.sun.com/javase/6/ and 1.7 will probably have something new. - -- Sincerely, Serkan KABA Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkym5wACgkQRh6X64ivZaKyWQCbBuzASFIYg+Ua5rifXVbig0RA c+wAnRdETeKiyDESLKspQ52uNAHx+HrL =OPAH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----