Why does the News.txt need to have a format we talk about? There are already perfectly good definitions for news lists and feeds already around. See RSS, Atom and related technologies.
--Greg On Dec 28, 2010 11:25 PM, "Troy A. Griffitts" <scr...@crosswire.org> wrote: > Thanks for the input Jonathan, > > On 12/28/2010 09:57 PM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: >> <scr...@crosswire.org <mailto:scr...@crosswire.org>> wrote: >> UnlockURL= > >> This makes sense. If it were standardised we might put it in for >> BPBible 0.5, but I wouldn't guarantee it at this stage. > > Thanks! > >> Is this something that could get out of date? A publisher changes their >> URL schema and suddenly that link no longer works? > > Well, this will probably be used at install time, so hopefully the user > is attempting to remote install the latest version of the module from > the publisher's own remote repository which should have an up-to-date > URL... but of course, I wouldn't put it past someone to forget to update > the entry in the .conf file. > > >> 2) Current Events: I'd like to have a: >> >> NEWS.txt >> > > Well, a general comment which might have bearing on your thoughts below. > This item was spawned by a publisher stating that they would like to > "have a chance to interact with" users downloading modules from the > publisher's repository. > > This was my first thought to give them a basic mechanism to do such. I > called it "NEWS.txt" incidentally, as my best guess at what they'd like > to say when they 'interacted' with users. I could be off on my > assumptions, and obviously the repository maintainer could put whatever > they wanted in there-- not just news. Maybe, as you say, simply a > repository description, or "Visit us at: http://..."; or whatever. > > Formatting is another issue you bring up which, if we decide to do this, > we certainly do need to resolve. I'm not inclined to open up the issue > of moving .conf entries from basicRTF+<a href...> markup right now, so > it would probably stay in line with this lame legacy markup for now. > Just as a summary to this topic, I understand we probably need to > advance to some HTML markup for the .conf About section, but it requires > an orchestrated switch, and frankly, I'm ok with having a very limited > set of tags (I think we support italic, bold, center, paragraph break, > and <a href...>) in our About section. It makes it easy for a variety > of display methods on a variety of devices. And it really should just > simply be an "About". > > Any more thoughts? > > Troy > > > >> Several thoughts on this: >> 1. Is this the most appropriate place to display it? >> 2. Will it be kept up to date? (I get frustrated by websites, etc. that >> have news older than a year or two old, and are either no longer doing >> anything or have given up telling me new things). >> 3. Is it duplicating information shown elsewhere? Does it mean just >> another thing for publishers to remember to keep up to date? >> 4. What degree of formatting will be needed/wanted in this news? >> >> I would be inclined to suggest the following instead: >> 1. Module repositories have some kind of a description or about >> section. This states the purpose of repository, etc., and is hopefully >> much less likely to change or be out of date. >> 2. Module repositories can have a URL to the main site for that module >> repository. This could be the main page of the publisher or a special >> page for the SWORD repository or whatever else the publisher chooses. >> If they want to have news I would probably expect it more to be on a >> feed on a webpage somewhere than in InstallMgr. This also means those >> who come across it who are not using SWORD get the same information, and >> there are no compromises to force-fit the news to what frontends will >> support. >> >> You could support something like this with a fairly standard conf file >> at the base of the repository. Maybe other fields could be included as >> well (such as a display name for the repository), but it seems to me a >> bit arbitrary to have news and nothing else, and I'm not sure that I >> follow the reasoning. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Jon >> >> >> Hope everyone has had a very wonderful Christmas filled with family, >> friends, and love. >> >> >> Troy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> <mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org> >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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