On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:33:28AM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> ... and just when I was beginning to think no one actually cared :) ...
I specifically wanted to avoid any special regex to pull data out of the
XML. Merging fields is acceptable, splitting them based on regex isn't.
> The proper form
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:33:28 -0700
Brian Dolbec wrote:
> The proper form of an irc url is in my example
> "irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis" and I took it from gentoo's irc
> channel page at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml .
Exactly. Most web browsers would know what to do with that, too.
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 08:49 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:52:20PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> > On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> > >
> > > eg:
> > >
> > > Channel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network
> > > or
> > > #gentoo-guis on the freenode IR
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:52:20PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> >
> > eg:
> >
> > ?? ??Channel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network
> > or
> > ?? ??#gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network,
> > irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis
> >
>
> Though a freefo
On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec wrote:
>
> eg:
>
> Channel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network
> or
> #gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network,
> irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis
>
Though a freeform text field is probably better for humans, I'd
suggest having more explicit data avail
As times have changed and IRC is used more an more. I propose adding an
optional data field to layman's repositories.xml file
format. This information would be listed along with the other
information when running:
# layman -i some-overlay
This added information would then be available and list
