[Slackbuilds-users] Idea for slackbuilds.org

[Erik Hanson]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:58:54 -0500
slakmagik <slakmagik at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2011-03-10 (Thu) 13:00:27 [-0800], King Beowulf wrote:
> > I'll go along with that. Easy to add a line, limited to maybe 50
> > char or less, to the .info
> > 
> > Ed
> > 
> > 
> > On 3/10/11, Ozan Türky?lmaz <ozan.turkyilmaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2011/3/10 Erik Hanson <erik at slackbuilds.org>:
> > >> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:00:28 -0500
> > >> Kyle Brown <kylebrown at ec.rr.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I believe it would be emmensely useful to have a short
> > >>> description displayed when browsing each of the slackbuilds.org
> > >>> directories.
> > >>>
> > >>> Currently only "Name", "Version", "Updated On" are displayed in
> > >>> the lists.
> > >>>
> > >>> I believe changing this to
> > >>> "Name",**"Description"**,"Version","Updated On" would be very
> > >>> helpful.
> > >>
> > >> I coded this a long time ago, but it was very slow because a
> > >> short description is not in the db, it had to be pulled from
> > >> each slack-desc. If we get that data in the db then it should be
> > >> easy to add.
> > >>
> > >
> > > How about making it mandatory for .infos. Short-desc would be
> > > really useful for browsers of the repo.
> > >
> 
> If there was any way to re-use the slack-desc's 'app (shortdesc)'
> line I think that would be much better than duplicating the info with
> a new .info field. I have no idea about the backend but it seems like
> a db column could be populated from the slack-descs once and
> repopulated at each update and be as fast as anything else in the
> meantimes. Whatever the method, the data is already there - seems
> like adding it again shouldn't help.

This is what we've been discussing. It seems possible. Technical
things need to be solved first. We will not be requiring redundant
data in the .info file.


-- 
Erik Hanson
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