[Slackbuilds-users] Idea for slackbuilds.org

[slakmagik]

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.