[Slackbuilds-users] OPTIONAL field [was: qemu/spice-gtk and usbredir]

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 06/11/16 05:26, Erik Hanson wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 22:35:28 +0100
> Andrzej Telszewski <atelszewski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 05/11/16 21:44, Erik Hanson wrote:
>>> What I also don't see much (any?) mention of is what the admins will
>>> have to refactor.. the website, php, database, internal tools we use
>>> for submission/approval process (there are many) .. things are more
>>> complicated behind the scenes than people realize. It's a messy and
>>> time-consuming job. Adding an OPTIONAL field to the info file isn't
>>> something that, if only someone would do it, magically "just
>>> works".
>>
>> I don't know behind the scenes, for that reason I don't see
>> SlackBuilds.org as complex software project.
>
> It is a complex software project. Everything we do was built from
> scratch, accommodating a custom submission system, a database,
> eventually git integration, and so on.
>

You haven't convinced me ;-) I still don't see it as complex code.

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski